Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Bump, Thomas
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Thomas BUMP, deceased, farmer, Sec. 24; was born in Chautauqua Co., N. Y., June 7, 1819; 
he came to this county in 1834 with his parents, who were among the pioneers of this 
county, and who laid claim to the land he afterward purchased from them, and upon which 
he lived up to the day of his death, Aug. 25, 1877. He married Miss Mary FAGEN, of N. Y. 
State, in 1840; she died June 5, 1869; they had ten children, six living - Lucinda, born 
Jan. 11, 1841; Jacob, Jan. 30, 1843; Albert, Nov. 6, 1845; Alonzo, June 20, 1847; Lydia A., 
Jan. 25,1849; Leonard, Dec. 5, 1855, and Oscar R., Dec. 23, 1861; four dead, Albert, born 
Nov. 6, 1845, and died April 26, 1864, in Washington, from disease contracted in the 
army; Henry J., born April 4, 1858, died Nov. 24, 1861; Alfred J., born Oct. 25, 1863, 
and died Aug. 24, 1864, and one born Aug. 19, 1854, died Aug. 21, 1854, in infancy.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.