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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Ethelindia Bumpas: Birth: 11 MAR 1794 in Laurens District S.C.. Death: in Judy Strickland 03-13-1998

  2. Hartwell Jones Bumpas: Birth: 08 FEB 1796 in Laurens District S.C.. Death: in Judy Strickland 03-13-1998

  3. Gabriel Bumpas: Birth: 1798 in Laurens District S.C.. Death: in Judy Strickland 03-13-1998

  4. Augustine Washington Bumpas: Birth: 24 MAR 1800 in Laurens District S.C.. Death: 21 NOV 1850 in Natchez, Adams co MS. Judy Strickland 03-13-1998

  5. Emily Bumpas: Birth: 26 JUN 1802 in Laurens District, South Carolina.. Death: 13 DEC 1882 in Bell County, Texas.

  6. Sophia Western Bumpas: Birth: 05 OCT 1805 in Stockton family reunion in Weesatcxhe 1998.. Death: in Judy Strickland 03-13-1998

  7. James Madison Bumpas: Birth: 23 MAY 1809 in Laurens District S.C.. Death: 02 APR 1844 in Judy Strickland 03-13-1998

  8. Sarah C. Sallie Bumpas: Birth: 21 SEP 1814 in Giles County, Tennessee. Death: 27 JUN 1898 in Brenham, Washington County, Texas

  9. Harriet Bumpas: Birth: 08 APR 1818 in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Death: 26 DEC 1904 in Cameron, Milam co Texas.


Notes
a. Note:   1770 - 1836
  He is shown born in 1769 in N. C. in the computer Ancestral File ofthe Salt Lake City mega-library.
 He moved to Laurens District in about 1798.
 He moved to Cross Waters, Giles Co., Tenn. about 1809, along with Dr.Gabriel Bumpas and William Buchanan.
 He was an eminent physician, a Methodist, and a Mason.
 Judy Strickland JJStrick1@juno.com says that this James and Sarah cameto TX in 1842.
  Archie earlier had his place of death as Giles co TN, but James E.Stockton carries it as Lawrenceburg, Lawrence co TN.
  James Bumpas was a doctor. James and Gabriel Bumpas headed a colonyfrom South Carolina of 50 or more immigrants. They were the firstrecorded white settlers in Giles County, Tennessee. James was a Masonand a Methodist.
  Born 1769 in N. C. (in the computer-based Ancestral Files of the SaltLake City mega-library). A Methodist. A Mason. A Doctor.
  Moved to Laurens District, South Carolina about 1798.
  Emigrated to Cross Waters, Giles County, Tennessee about 1809.
  From "The Bumpass Family" 1972 compiled by Anne Shirley Bumpus andJames Richard Townsend, the library in Clayton Mansion:
 "Dr. James Bumpas and Gabriel Bumpas headed a colony from SouthCarolina of fifty or more immigrants, who were the earlier settlers ofGiles County TN. These colonists had to remain in the neighborhood ofNashville a year or more on account of the failure of the Indians tocede the lands that the colonists were to occupy south and southwest ofthe modern town of Pulaski. This colony started from Nashville about1809 and had to cut the road from where Columbia now stands to wherePulaski now stands." There follows a detailed account of their hardwork and hardships.
  Note from I. W. Fariss says he was buried near New College Bldg.
 

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