Editha is the wife of Joshua C Pumphrey.
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Contribution from C Roth
from the "Elizabeth Ross Chapter DAR". Thanks. C Roth # 47864882
Mrs. Edith Wells Pumphrey
Edith (or Editha) Wells was born October 18, 1783, in Wellsburg, Virginia, to Henry Wells and Jemimia Coe/Cole. Edith's father was a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War who served in Col. Burgess Ball's Company, the First Virginia Regulars commanded by Richard Parker.
Edith married Joshua Pumphrey.
Edith Pumphrey and her son Serene were among the first settlers in the Absecum, Iowa area. They moved to Des Moines Township in 1846 and erected a two-room log house. In 1849 Serene Pumphrey operated a freight line from Keokuk to Fort Dodge and built two more log houses at the village of Absecum. One of the houses replaced the original log house which was destroyed by fire.
She died October 29, 1858, and is buried at the Gonterman Cemetery in Jefferson County, Iowa, near Batavia.
The Elizabeth Ross Chapter DAR dedicated a marker at her grave site in 1936.
Note - (Gonterman Cemetery is also known as Rominger Cemetery).
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Contribution from C Roth
from the "Elizabeth Ross Chapter DAR". Thanks. C Roth # 47864882
Mrs. Edith Wells Pumphrey
Edith (or Editha) Wells was born October 18, 1783, in Wellsburg, Virginia, to Henry Wells and Jemimia Coe/Cole. Edith's father was a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War who served in Col. Burgess Ball's Company, the First Virginia Regulars commanded by Richard Parker.
Edith married Joshua Pumphrey.
Edith Pumphrey and her son Serene were among the first settlers in the Absecum, Iowa area. They moved to Des Moines Township in 1846 and erected a two-room log house. In 1849 Serene Pumphrey operated a freight line from Keokuk to Fort Dodge and built two more log houses at the village of Absecum. One of the houses replaced the original log house which was destroyed by fire.
She died October 29, 1858, and is buried at the Gonterman Cemetery in Jefferson County, Iowa, near Batavia.
The Elizabeth Ross Chapter DAR dedicated a marker at her grave site in 1936.
Note - (Gonterman Cemetery is also known as Rominger Cemetery).
Editha is the wife of Joshua C Pumphrey.
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Contribution from C Roth
from the "Elizabeth Ross Chapter DAR". Thanks. C Roth # 47864882
Mrs. Edith Wells Pumphrey
Edith (or Editha) Wells was born October 18, 1783, in Wellsburg, Virginia, to Henry Wells and Jemimia Coe/Cole. Edith's father was a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War who served in Col. Burgess Ball's Company, the First Virginia Regulars commanded by Richard Parker.
Edith married Joshua Pumphrey.
Edith Pumphrey and her son Serene were among the first settlers in the Absecum, Iowa area. They moved to Des Moines Township in 1846 and erected a two-room log house. In 1849 Serene Pumphrey operated a freight line from Keokuk to Fort Dodge and built two more log houses at the village of Absecum. One of the houses replaced the original log house which was destroyed by fire.
She died October 29, 1858, and is buried at the Gonterman Cemetery in Jefferson County, Iowa, near Batavia.
The Elizabeth Ross Chapter DAR dedicated a marker at her grave site in 1936.
Note - (Gonterman Cemetery is also known as Rominger Cemetery).
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Contribution from C Roth
from the "Elizabeth Ross Chapter DAR". Thanks. C Roth # 47864882
Mrs. Edith Wells Pumphrey
Edith (or Editha) Wells was born October 18, 1783, in Wellsburg, Virginia, to Henry Wells and Jemimia Coe/Cole. Edith's father was a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War who served in Col. Burgess Ball's Company, the First Virginia Regulars commanded by Richard Parker.
Edith married Joshua Pumphrey.
Edith Pumphrey and her son Serene were among the first settlers in the Absecum, Iowa area. They moved to Des Moines Township in 1846 and erected a two-room log house. In 1849 Serene Pumphrey operated a freight line from Keokuk to Fort Dodge and built two more log houses at the village of Absecum. One of the houses replaced the original log house which was destroyed by fire.
She died October 29, 1858, and is buried at the Gonterman Cemetery in Jefferson County, Iowa, near Batavia.
The Elizabeth Ross Chapter DAR dedicated a marker at her grave site in 1936.
Note - (Gonterman Cemetery is also known as Rominger Cemetery).
Inscription
" Asleep in Jesus Blessed Sleep, from which none ever wake to weep"
