Data source is the 'Moomaw/Mumma/Mumaw/Mumaugh Genealogy' 1990 complied by Robert A. Moomaw plus data from Frank Ward Jr.
Illinois Statewide Death Index, 1916-1950
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MUMMA DANIEL WEBSTER M/W UNK 0810135 1934-11-21 ROCK ISLAND ZUMA TWP 34-11-24
MUMMA LORETTA N F/W Y-87 0000088 1942-11-26 ROCK ISLAND ZUMA TWP
Title: Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois
City of Publication: Chicago
Publisher: Munsell Pub. Co.
Date: 1914
HISTORY OF ROCK ISLAND COUNTY, ILLINOIS
pp 1320-1321
MUMMA, Daniel Webster, operating the Shady Maple Farm. In Zuma township. Rock Island county. is one of the well known citizens and has been prominent in various lines of industry. He was born in Belmont county, Ohio, April 2 1852, a son of Daniel and Elizabeth, (Sheppard) Mumma. also natives of that county. The father, who was a farmer by occupation, was born December 13, 1815 and died September 14, 1898. and the mother was born January 1, 1818, and died January 1, 1878. He was a son of John and Mary (Fox) Mumma, natives of Hagerstown, Md., he born in 1782 and she in 1787, and at the time they moved to Belmont county, 0H. they saw soldiers going to serve in the War of 1812. While John Mumma was chopping down a tree it fell and killed him, December 24. 1817. His widow survived him a great many years. passing away June 22, 1876, Elizabeth (Sheppard) Mumma was a daughter of James and Hannah (Green) Sheppard, natives of Belmont county. 0H. Daniel and Elizabeth Mumma had children as follows: Melinda, Mrs. J. H. Neptune: Oliver, Benjamin F., Daniel W., and Louis Harlan, who survive and three who are deceased: Isaac N.. John W. and Mary. All now surviving reside in Belmont county except Daniel W.
Daniel W. Mumma was educated in his native county and reared on a farm. At the age of twenty years he came to Sterling, Ill., and joined an aunt who was residing there, and worked during the summer months and in winter attended school. In the fall of 1874 he came to Zuma township, Rock Island county, and engaged in teaching school winters and working at farming summers, until June, 1876, teaching fifty-two months altogether. He then went to Port Byron. Ill., and learned telegraphy in the railroad station, remaining until 1880, when he came to Moline and took charge of the American Union office. One year later he became night watchman in a machine shop, remaining in the position two years. In the fall of 1883 he engaged in a feed business for a time, then became driver for the American Express Company, holding that position fifteen months. He then returned to the feed business, but in 1890 sold his interests in the city and came to live on his present farm, the birthplace of his wife, they having purchased the Interests of the other heirs. He is highly successful as a general farmer and pays considerable attention to stock raising, and as a man of intelligence and education, represents the best interests of his community. He fitted himself for teaching by a course in the Normal School at Hopedale, 0H, and has always kept up to the times in his knowledge of current events and issues. Possessing the natural gift of music, he has cultivated it and teaches this branch, giving; a few private lessons. In politics he is a republican and has served two terms as assessor and as town clerk. He is held in high esteem as a citizen and his circle of personal friends Is large.
On October 30, 1881, Mr. Mumma was united in marriage with Luretta M.. daughter of John and Mary P. (Graham) Moody, who was born September 23, 1855, in Zuma township, where her parents were early settlers. The father was born October 17. 1811, and died May 30, 1875, and the mother was born January 1, 1814, and died October 6, 1902. They were married In Kentucky, November 4, 1835. He was born in Tennessee and she in Morganfield, Union county, Ky. Mr. Moody came to Rock Island county in 1832 as a soldier in the Black Hawk war, serving to its close. After his marriage he lived ten years longer in White county, III., which bas been his home since the Black Hawk war, and in 1845, he returned to Kentucky to take charge of his mother-in-law's farm, remaining there three years. His mother had died when he was twelve years of age and he had then been bound out until reaching his majority to Judge Wilson, for whom he worked two years after he was twenty-one years of age, overseeing a farm. On May 1 1848, he came to the northeastern portion of Zuma township, where he rented a farm for one year. He then purchased eighty acres of land, part of which had been put under cultivation. This land contained a log cabin and a straw barn. He brought the rest of the land under cultivation and made many improvements, adding to it until he owned 117 acres. and in 1861 erected a brick house. He was prominent in public affairs, served as road commissioner, and school director for many pears, and always took an interest in the development and welfare of the community. Mr. and Mrs. Moody had nine children, of whom three are now living: Fannie J.. Mrs. Samuel S. Stewart, of Ansley, Neb., whose husband is deceased; Mary, widow of Edward M. McMurphy, of Zuma township; Mrs. Mumma, the youngest. Mrs. Mumma attended school In Moline, and after finishing a course in the high school there taught school seven years. She has spent a large part of her life on the farm where she was born and is well known in the community. being prominent In advancing the cause of Temperance and a member of a local committee in this connection. Mr. Mumma has served in all the offices of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is an active member. He and his wife have three children: Edna Pearl, a school teacher, at home; Holmes Oliver, a graduate of the Chicago Embalming School and now in the undertaking business at Sterling, III.; Vernal Noel, now attending Port Byron Academy.