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Note: Conrad Crump (Johann Conradt Kramm) was born between 1753 and 1757 in Burguffeln, Hesse, Germany. He came to America in 1776, in the Birtish service, was taken prisoner at the Battle of Trenton and was taken to and exchanged at Elizabethwown, N.J. and taken by the British to Georgia, in which state at Ebenezer, he deserted the British army, and made his way to North Carolina. While residing in Mecklenburg, N.C., he enlisted in March 1780, served as a private in Captain Gabriel Enoch's Company - Colonel Lillington's North Carolina Regiment, and was at the Siege of Charleston, where he was taken prisoner by the Birtish, carried to Long Island, New York, and was held for about twelve months when he made his way out of that area, and reached his home in Mecklenburg County (afterwards Cabarrus), North Carolina about Christmas 1781. He joined the regiment of Francis Marion until the close of the war.
He was allowed pension on his application October 23, 1832, at which time he was aged about seventy-nine years and resided in Burke County, North Carolina. He was a member of the Rocky Spring Church (Luthern), which was now in the present area of Caldwell County. It was probably in the German Settlement dominated by the Corpening family. The Synod minutes show that Conrad Kramm (Krump), was a lay deligate to the convention October 1822. He died September 18, 1836 and was buried in the Crump-Lingle Cemetery now in Caldwell County.
Note: some of this information was sent to me by an unknown person several years ago, but based primarily on his pension application. The majority of the data is taken from a book of 280 pages on Conrad Crump's family compiled and privately published by Evelyn Crump,
266 Longleaf Dr., Belmont, N.C. 28012, <mecrump@@juno.com> and available directly from her. That book by Evelyn covers eight generations of this family and almost 7,000 individuals through at least 1999.
My report here only covers Conrad and his children and their children's names. There is much more information available in the book on Conrad's children and descendants that is available in this brief report. Evelyn writes "I don't mind you giving info out about anything in my book...If any info of mine is incorrect I want people to send me proof and I will be glad to correct it..." (Ed Crump, Jr., Feb. 2003)
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