LUMPKIN FAMILY

GEORGE AND MARY LUMPKIN	RICHARD AND ELIZABETH FORREST	Grandfathers Family	Grandmothers Family
ROBERT AND ELIZABETH LUMPKIN		WILLIAMS
ANDERSON AND SUSANNAH LUMPKIN

Anderson Lumpkin was born on 5/2/1812 at Knoxville, Tennesse and died on 3/28/1899 at Corning, Iowa, aged 86 years, 10 months 26 days.

Susannah Williams was born on 9/29/1816 and died at Centerville, Iowa on 11/1/1854.

They were married in 1833 at Randolph County, Indiana. .

Resided in Knoxville till 1830 when his parents moved to Randolph County Indiana. Here he lived till 1854, when he emigrated to Fort Dodge, Webster County Iowa. In 1888 he moved to Adams County, Iowa, and about 1896 moved to Corning, the County seat, where he lived the rest of his life.

After Susannah died Anderson married Miss Annie Springer in 1874 of Fort Dodge, who survived him.

From the Des Moines Register of April 4, 1899

DEATH OF AN IOWA PIONEER
Anderson Lumpkin Passes Away After a Long and Eventful Career

Des Moine, April 3.--Ed. register: The death of Anderson Lumpkin last Tuesday, atCorning, Ia., removed another pioneer. He was born in Knoxville, Tenn., May 2, 1812, and was 86 years, 10 months and 26 days old at the time of his death. When he was 18 years of age, his parents moved to Randolph County, Indiana, and at 21 years of age, was married to Susannah Williams.

In the year 1854, he in company with some other families, started for Iowa by team overland. On reaching Centerville, his wife was taken sick and died, after which they moved on north to Knoxville, Marion County, where they went into winter quarters.

Early in the spring of 1855, they again started on for their final destination--Fort Dodge, in Webster County--and settled on bought goverment land. They built log houses, made rails from timber growing along the North Lizzard Creek, fenced and began to cultivate the soil, coming to Des Moines for all supplies and to mill.

The Indian troubles soon broke out and nearly all left their homes temporarily on account of the danger. But all the this time, Mr. Lumpkin, like a brave pioneer, never flinched, but guarded his home by barring doors and keeping constant vigil with his trusted rifles and plenty of ammunition.  The Indians never disturbed them in their home, and as the excitement died away, the people returned again to their homes, and peacefully took up the arduous work of making all kinds of improvements.

When the rebellion broke out, his oldest son, Wilson, came to DesMoines and enlisted in Company B, Fifteenth Iowa regiment, serving out his full three years, reinlisted and remained with his old comrades to close of the war, and was in the final muster out at Washington D. C., in 1865.  Many of his old comrades will readily recognize his name when reading this.

he is the oldest one of seven children who survived their mother, of whom five are still living, two of whom attended the last sad rites. Mrs. C.N Jorgensen, of Hastings, Neb., and T.A. Lumpkin, of Des Moines, being the only one in reach at the time of his death.

In 1874, he married Miss Annie Springer, of Fort Dodge, to whom six children were born and survive him. In 1888 he moved to Adams County. Retiring from active life about three years ago, he moved into Corning, where he spent his last days until the final summons came, March 28, 1899, when the work of a long, active Christian life was ended.

He was interred in Corning Cemetery Friday morning,March 31, after a very impressive funeral service, followed by a long concourse of friends to his final resting place.

Fort Dodge and Corniing papers please copy.

Lumpkin References:

• A Lumpkin Family Link

• http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/lumpkin/

• Parker, Dalton Austin, 1938- The Lumpkin family of King and Queen County, Virginia-- the Poland of America : a 200 year genealogical research, 1791-1991 / Columbia, S.C.] : D.A. Parker, c1990. 141 leaves: ill., maps ; 28 cm

• The Lumpkin Family of Georgia, by L. L. Cody 1928