Notes:
Data source is Leora Rabuck, 1920 3rd Ave., Altoona PA
Data researcher is Doug Mumma. e-mail doug@mumma.org
After his father, immigrant Peter, died about 1785, an Orphan's Court action is necessary since Peter has not reached his majority. He is listed as a minor above age 14 in 1786 & he chooses John Artford of Hempfield Twp. as guardian of his estate.
The birth of many of Peter's children are listed in the German Reform Records of Columbia, recorded by Rev. Shaffner. In many cases, Rev Shaffner created summary tables for his church which listed a person's birth, baptish, marriage date and spouse and the person's death. Since these records were created after 1820, the accuracy of some births may be in question. Under the listing of Peter's wife, Anna Mumma, b. 6 Jan 1769 as the daughter of Cornelius Greamm & wife, her marriage to Peter Mumma is listed as being in 1789 and 10 children being born. Not all of the children's births are recorded in the Columbia Reformed records. The entry indicates that Anna Gramm was a Mennonite and this may be part of the reason that some of the children were not listed in the church records.
A Peter Mumma is listed as being confirmed in the Reformed Church of Columbia in 1817 at the age of 48
Most of Peter's children attended the Reformed Church in Columbia.
1800 Census, PA, Lancaster Co., Columbia
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Peter Muma
1 male under 10
1 male 26-44
1 female under 10
1 female 26-44
1810 Census, PA, Lancaster Co., West Hempfield Twp.
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Peter Mumma
2 males under 10
1 male 16-25
1 male over 45
1 femles under 10
2 females 10-15
1 female 16-25
1 female 26-44
1820 Census, PA, Lancaster Co., West Hempfield Twp.
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Peter Mumma
1 male 10-16
1 male 16-26
1 male over 45
3 females 10-16
1 female over 45
1830 Census, PA, Lancaster Co., West Hempfield Twp.
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Charles Lockhard (30-40) wife (20-30) <= married Catherine Mumma
Peter Mumah (20-30) & (60-70) wife (30-40) & (60-70) Peter Sr. & a son
Cornelius Mumah (20-30) wife (20-30) Peter Sr's son
1840 census, PA, Lancaster Co., West Hempfield Twp.
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Charles Lockart (40-50)
Cornelius Mumma (40-50) <=== brother of Catherine Mumma Lockhart
Peter Mumma (70-80) <== father of Cornelius & Catherine Mumma, the brother & sister
NOTE: In one of the Mennonite Jounals, there is a reading of the Kraybill Mennonite Cemetery located about 3 miles west of Mt. Joy. That cemetery reading suggests a Peter Mumma (?) 5/30/1761-5/7/1827 was buried there. (I have found no evidence that a Peter Mumma was buried in the Kraybill cemetery, including my personal viewing of the cemetery tombstones. Also, we have no record of a Peter Mumma being born 1761 or dying in 1827. I believe this is an incorrect reading - Doug Mumma.)
BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF LANCASTER COUNT
CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS AND MANY OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT
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PUBLISHERS: J. H. BEERS and CO. 19
AUTHOR: begun BY JOHN F. MEGINNESS
ABRAHAM B. KAUFFMAN, a prosperous general farmer and highly respected citizen of Cordelia, West Hempfield township, is a native of that place, and was born May 3, 1840, a son of David and Susan (Bishop) Kauffman, of Lancaster county.
David Kauffman was a teamster, owning his own team, and was chiefly employed in handling ore from the banks or pits to the smelting furnace at Columbia. To his marriage with Susan Bishop were born lour children, viz.: Abraham B.; Harry B., who died in 1885; Martha B., wife of John B. Eshleman, of West Hempfield township; and Catherine B., who married Gideon H. Smith, a blacksmith at Silver Spring. David Kauffman was called away in 1847, aged forty-three years. His widow married Michael Kauffman, a brother of David, and to this union were born four children, viz.: David, a stonemason in Cordelia; Jacob, deceased; John, a puddler in the Columbia Rolling mill, but lives at Cordelia; and Sarah, wife of Horace Brookhart, a retired merchant at Columbia. Mrs. Susan Kauffman died in 1873 at the age of fifty-four. She was a member of the United Brethren Church.
Abraham B. Kauffman has himself been twice married-first in 1862, in Cordelia, to Catherine Irwin, a daughter of James and Catherine Irwin, of Lancaster county, and to this marriage was born one child, Effie, who is the wife of Jacob Kindig, a drover at Silver Spring. Mrs. Catherine Kauffman died in 1864. at the age of twenty-four years, and was buried in Columbia. On May 30,1866, Abraham B. Kauffman chose for his second wife Anna Eisenberger, and to this union have been born thirteen children, viz.: Samuel E., married to Anna Musser and living in Columbia: Elizabeth E., wife of David Hershey, a carpenter also in Columbia; Harry E., who married Susan Daum and is a puddler at Columbia, but lives at Cordelia; Edward E., a puddler at Columbia, and married to Mary Berntheitzel; Amos E., a railroad man, at Columbia, and married to Elizabeth Lichty; David E., also of Cordelia, and married to Emma Harry; Franklin E., Abraham E., John E., Horace G., Flora E., Anna E. and Christian M., all seven at home.
Mrs. Anna M. (Eisenberger) Kauffman was born in Kinderhook, West Hempfield township, Dec. 6, 1842, a daughter of Samuel and Anna (Mumma) Eisenberger, the former of whom was a quarryman and died in 1885, at the age of seventy-three years, in the faith of the Reformed Church; the latter had died in 1872, when fifty-nine years old. To their marriage were born eleven children, namely: Abraham, of Reading; Peter, who died young; Margaret., married to David H. Kline, at Klinesville; Catherine, also deceased ; Anna ; Elizabeth, married to Henry Kline, of Columbia; Mary, of York county, wife of John Kline, Henry, a bricklayer in Kinderhook; Christian. who died young; Barbara, wife of John Evans, of Cordelia ; and Samuel, who died young.
The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Anna M. Kauffman were Abraham and Margaret (Slough) Eisenberger, natives and farming people of Lancaster county; and her maternal grandparents were Peter and Anna (Gramm) Mumma, also of Lancaster county, and followers of agricultural pursuits.
Abraham R. Kauffman began life by handling ore, but also began renting farms in 1868, doing hauling and farming together. He is a Republican, has served as judge of elections, and is now inspector of elections.