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4/12/1825 - 12/15/1905 |
Jacob Rumley was born 12 Apr. 1825. He was the son of Edward Edmund Rumley and Mary Nancy Holt Rumley who were married 20 July 1824 in Orange Co. NC. Jacob had four sisters, Rebecca, Edna, Rachel, and Mary. Rebecca is listed as born the same date as Jacob. So we think she was Jacob’s twin sister. And Jacob had three brothers, John , Israel, and Marshall. Three of the brothers were in the confederate army, Jacob, Israel, and Marshall.
Jacob Rumley married Mary Elizabeth Griffith 19 Dec. 1861 in Forsyth Co. NC. Mary’s parents were James R. and Margaret ? Griffith of Forsyth Co. NC. Jake and Mary lived at Rural Hall and Mary E. worked for a tobacco processing co. in Winston Salem, NC. The table she worked on took the stem out of the leaf and stacked the leaf for making cigars. The stems were put in a pile . When they would sweep the floor the stems from the leaf and the floor sweepings were put in a hopper and ground into snuff. Mary never used tobacco. Mary E. used the money she earned to pay the high taxes brought on by the war effort. She was trying to hold on to the plantation until the war was over. But after the war the confederate money was not any good. So carpet baggers bought up the land for back taxes placed against the land by the Federal Gov.
After their marriage 19 Dec. 1861 Jake and Mary lived in Stokes Co. NC. for about two years. Then Jacob Rumley age 39 enlisted in the war effort at Lenoir Co. NC. on 20 Mar. 1864. Lenoir Co. was about 150 miles from Jacob’s home town. The enlistment was in Co. F, 21st. Reg. NC. state troops. Jacob told the family he was in Lee’s army near Richmond Va. History does place them there at the same time. Jacob received a wound, 6 Feb. 1865, to the face at Hatchers Run near Petersburg, Va. After returning home he was captured ( 11 or 12th. Apr. 1865 ) by the union forces in Stokes Co. NC. , confined at Nashville, Tenn. and at Louisville, Ky. until transferred to Camp Chase, Ohio. Jacob arrived at Camp Chase, Ohio, Fed. prison 4 May 1865. He was released on 13 June 1865, after taking the Oath of Allegiance. The family story which was passed on to the present generation is: Jacob was shot in the mouth which knocked out a wisdom tooth. and some particles of the tooth lodged in the back of his neck. As a result he suffered bad health the rest of his life and always weighed less than a hundred pounds. By 1868 Jake and Mary Rumley had two children ( James L. 6, and Mary Jane 4 ) and moved to a cabin at Flat Gap in Wise Co., Va. This was as far North as humans could travel because of Pine Mountain, Pine Mountain could be crossed only at gaps such as Cumberland Gap.
Later Jacob built a cabin part way down the hill which was about 15’ by 30’ with a hall in the middle. They had a total of 12 children , 2 boys and 10 girls. The parents and two of their daughters are buried at the Benjamin Bolling cem. at Flat Gap, Wise Co. Va. Jacob returned to Forsyth Co., NC. where he filed for a disability pension, 6 July 1885. He had some relatives living there and helped him file pension number 710. The statements were made and sworn to before a justice of the peace. Jacob Rumley received a wound , 6 Feb. 1865, in the right cheek which renders the applicant incapable of performing manual labor. Wound was received while in the discharge of duty as a soldier in the confederate army. Jacob was examined by a physician, D.N. Dalton, in good standing in the co. and state. The doctor made a sworn statement before the court clerk of Forsyth Co. NC. After an examination the applicant was found to be incapacitated for manual labor because of wounds received while in the discharge of his duty as a soldier in the service of the late confederate states.
Doctors written statement: “From a minnieball entering right cheek making its exit on back of neck, little to right of mesial plane (causing a very painful abecess in sub. maxilary region about once every twelve months. ” (1885) D.N. Dalton physician On July 22,1885 the board of inquiry disallowed the claim because ; “disallowed proof as to disability unsatisfied”. The people who did not accept a disallowed decision kept on filing until they got their pension. A second physician was in some cased brought in with another statement. Then the wife and ages of the children was another helpful statement. Then in some cases I saw where the applicant got three different lawyers before the war dept. granted the pension of $8.00 per month. Jacob Rumley returned to Wise .Co. Va. where he died of blood poison, 15 Dec. 1905. Jacob was buried in Wise Co. Flat Gap, Va. at the Benjamin Bolling cem. Mary Elizabeth Griffith Rumley died (19 Dec. 1912) from cancer. The children said cancer ate a big hole in her side before she died. Their dau. Delila was suppose to have been the one who took care of the parents during their last days. Mary would have gotten a widows pension but probably never filed for one. These pension applications could have been done from Wise Co. Va. Then they could have been followed up with more request. But that is the way with red tape and disadvantaged people. The parents and two daughters; Mary Jane Rumley, and Lucinda Lazinka Rumley Westmoreland and some of the Westmoreland grandchildren are all laid to rest at the Benjamin Bolling cem.
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