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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:   1776 - 1865
  Her father was regarded as a man of wealth. He was too old to servein the Revolutionary Army, but he contributed money to the cause.
  She was baptized as a child into the Methodist Church by one of thefirst Methodist preachers in America.
  Sarah moved with her husband from South Carolina to Tennessee in about1809 for the new, rich pioneer country. They traveled for months untilthey reached a place called Crosswaters. Later they moved toLawrenceburg, near present Nashville.
  Dr. James Bumpas was an eminent physician, a Methodist, and one of theearliest recorded settlers of Giles County, Tennessee. Mootie ClemmonsCherry reports that she accompanied her doctor husband on many medicalhouse calls.
  She was a small woman, but inclined to be plump.
  After her husband's death in 1836, Sarah came to Texas in 1842 andmade her home with her youngest daughter Harriet Bumpas (Mrs. William)Chappell in Chappell Hill. "William Chappell openly blessed the day ofher coming," because Harriet Bumpas Chappell was a delicate woman, "aclinging vine," and not a good manager of a household.
  For a full story, see pages 73-78 in Mootie Cherry's "Bumpas" book.See also pages 127-130 of "The Bumpas Family" compiled 1972 by AnneShirley Bumpus and James Richard Townsend.
  Sarah was always very energetic and looked after the household affairsof this new home. The men of the neighborhood called her "MotherBumpas." She carried the keys to closet and smokehouse dangling at herbelt.
  Her grand-children remembered the switches she used on their legs andequally on the little negroes on the plantation.
  On Sunday morning she lined up all the children on the plantation,white and black, and taught them a Golden Text. This house was always ahome for visiting preachers and circuit riders.
  Mootie Clemmons Cherry reports on Page 77 that Sam Houston lived only20 miles away, and that he visited often, and that he asked advice onSeceding or Not Seceding in 1861.
  Sarah worked to have Chappell Hill Female College established.
  She died in 1865, and is buried in Chappell Hill.

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