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THE RUMPH and FREDERICK FAMILIES GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL with ALLIED FAMILIES OF Datwyler, Harrisperger, Hesse, Kaigler, Rickenbacker, Murph, Wolfe, Jamison, Carmichael, Cooner, Gholson, Pooser, Wannamaker, Glover, Walter, Farrior, Shuler, Fun­ ches, Feaster, Cart, Cain, Robinson, Felder, Slappey, Plant, Jones, Davenport, Walker, Everett, Haslam, Walker, Norris, Rowe, and Other Families. By LOUISE FREDERICK HAYS PRIVATELY PUBLISHED-LIMITED EDITION VoLUME No./ 7 'f PUBLISHED FOR: COPYRIGHT 1.942 BY LOUISE FREDERICK HAYS JOHN T. HANCOCK Publisher Atlanta, Georgia ,_·•- ~~-~.-:.:~,.~--.. .,.~ ~.r;'42!t f~ij...~.:·· --: ·:t,,,,,...., .. -· ~: ,,., 5-~·- ;~\- '.,., .· . "-"' . -- ··- . "l . ,,. - ¥'•;./: ·."t":=;!~-~ ~ ~.,. ..... """"' .,. \ ~:- " ...:«--._ ~-~ ,.,J •- • ...., • ,,- r - ~, -~ ......... ~ ---~ . -. ~ . ' -:' .............-. , . -.,. ...... l • ,. ~ .. --.e;.-~-..,II.~­ • ... ~.;. ...,.,.__\ , ---· ♦-~ .... .;-: ~-"' :~~- t~ ... ~~ .•. , --~· .... ~~ . ·:. !J../ ;.- . ... ..' ... --...·· ,~ --·-..,II,· • ..... ... " ~~~::,,.·""' .• I . -~~ ,;e--.-.....,._-;. .,.., - ~·;:~tt-~ -........·----~- ... -....,.,.,.,~_....,_,. ~--;-' . ·-:: ...... ~~~ ..... ,.,; -- .,,,. ;.:~~,..--..... --- ....... _~,,. "• -~..,...&~"'•:... ... z:~}~:;?~.(~ .. -· :-.~;~:-:e .. --,,3-! St. John's Lutheran Church, Charleston, South Carolina Rcicrozd John George FricJcrick,, First ),ffoislcr DEDICATION To the Me,nory of ,,ny Father, Major Ja111es Daniel Frederick, a Descendant of both The Frederick and the Rumph Families, This Volume is Dedicated by Louise Frederick Hays. 1942 INTRODUCTION HE writing of a family history is a very dangerous business, and perhaps a thankless T job. The only excuse for an attempt at such a book is that it came about by accident. My family has become so numerous, with so many intermarriages, that I have not been able to explain to my children their connection and relationship to certain cousins, so I decided about twenty years ago to work it all out for them. This has required no end of writing, patience, and nagging my kinsfolks, all of whom responded in a most cooperative way. Having kindly sent in their own families, they began wanting copies, with a conse­ quent decision on my part to incorporate all the Rumphs and Fredericks I could find and publish the work. Histories of the Rumph Families of Colorado and New York have already been pub­ lished, so I deal only with the Rumph Family of South Carolina. Mr. Alex S. Salley, Secretary of the Historical Commission of South Carolina, published a pamphlet in 1903 called The Genealogy of the Rumph Family of South Carolina. With his permission I have rearranged, revised and used parts of it, making many additions, particularly re­ garding the Rumph Family of Georgia. His History of Orangeburg County has been a constant source of help and has been freely used and quoted. Mr. Salley also aided in the preparation of this book by reading and correcting the manuscript. Mr. Skottowe Wannamaker also gave me the privilege of using data from his book, The Wannamaker. Salley, Ma.ckay, and Bellinger Families. To Mr. Salley, to Mr. Wannamaker, and to all who have contributed their family genealogies, I give my thanks. The Frederick Family was rather difficult because, although they seem to have sprung from the same source, they came over at various times and landed in different parts of the United States-Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. One branch of the Frederick family, with the Rumph family, located in South Carolina at the time when prestige rested upon land, and it was not long before they were acquir­ ing land grants. Some had great land holdings like baronial estates. Both of these fam­ ilies seem to have been tied continuously to the land, as these pages will show. Although they drew land in the different Parishes of South Carolina, most of them settled in Orange­ burgh District, with Orangeburgh as their town. In a way, this book has resolved itself into a kind of a history of the Swiss German and Dutch Lutheran families, who, seeking religious freedom, emigrated to America from the land of William Tell and from the country of Luther and Goethe, bringing with them their own Lutheran ministers. These distressed Palatines, natives of the old German Empire, either sailed direct from Rotterdam or fled to England for protection in consequence of encouragement they had received from Queen Anne, by the Proclama­ tion of 1708. They pitched their tents a short distance from London and ,vaited until thev. could sail direct to America. Like the Cavaliers, the Puritans, the Quakers and the Huguenots, these emigrants ,vere of an element that makes supreme sacrifices for con- science sake. They had the same ideals and the same tenacity of character as the f oun­ ders of the colonies but they brought a fervor and a sturdiness all their o\\·n. They sur­ passed all other colonists as cultivators of the soil; they brought the love for the beautiful in nature that showed itself in the culture of fruits and flowers, bringing ,vith them many roots and bulbs which have been handed down in their families. They brought religious convictions and a love of liberty that were none the less sincere because associated ,vith a tolerance learned in the school of suffering. Behind the cold statistics of this book, there is the romantic story of two of these fam­ ilies, the Rumphs and the Fredericks, who were, perhaps, friends in the old Country. 7 8 R U M P H - F R E' D E R I C K 14' A M I L I E S They were a sturdy lot and the records show that for a hundred years they married almost exclusively among their own clan. They gave their children the best education available, either in the schools or through tutors and governesses imported from Charles­ ton. Through the generations, to an unusual extent, they have had college educations. Having stayed together in Orangeburgh for about a hundred years, in 1832 some twenty families, descendants of the original settlers, moved to the lands recently acquired from the Indians in Georgia and settled in Houston County. Descendants of these pioneers are still there. In every crisis of American history the descendants of these immigrants have wrought for the upbuilding of the American commonwealth. We find them leaders in the Church­ es, and in civic affairs, their names are on the Rosters in the Indian wars, in the Revolu­ tionary War, as Confederate soldiers, in the Argonne and now in the World War, always bravely proclaiming the principles for which, as free men, they were ready to fight and die. They emigrated to enjoy freedom, and to establish American homes. LoUISE FREDERICK HAYS Atlanta, 1942. TABLE OF CONTENTS GENEALOGY OF THE RUMPH FAMILY Part I. The Swiss Emigrants .................................................... Chapter I Pagt• 17 The Rumph Family ..................................................... Chapter II Page 19 The Run1ph Family of South Carolina .................................. Chapter III Page 21 Part II. A. Abraham Rumph-First Generation ................................ Chapter IV Page 2:J Part III. B. Catherine Rumph-First Generation ................................. Charter V Page 27 Part IV. D. Peter Rumph-First Generation .................................... Chapter VI Page 28 Part V. E. Mary Rumph-First Generation ................................... Chapter VII Page 29 Part VI. F. David Rumph-First Generation .................................. Chapter VIII Page 34 II. David Rumph II-Second Generation ........................... Chapter IX Page 36 IV. Sarah Rumph-Second Generation .............................. Chapter X Page 38 V. Ann Rumph-Second Generation ............................... Chapter XI Page 40 IX. Jacob Rumph-Second Generation ............................. Chapter XII Page 42 X. Christian Rumph-Second Generation ......................... Chapter XII Page 45 Part VII. G. Jacob Rumph, I-First Generation ................................ Chapter XIII Page 46 I. Anne Rumph Wannamaker-Second Generation .............. Chapter XIV Page 47 II. Jacob Rumph II-Second Generation .......................... Chapter XV Page 50 a. John Rumph-Third Generation ........................... Chapter XVI Page 54 b. Jacob Rumph-Third Generation ......................... Chapter XVII Page 61 c. David Rumph-Third Generation ........................ Chapter XVIII Page 62 d. Caroline Rumph Jamison-Third Generation .............. Chapter XIX Page 65 e. Christian H. Rumph-Third Generation ..................... Chapter XX Page 69 f. Ann Rumph Mellard-Third Generation .................... Chapter XXI Page 70 The Orangeburg Settlers in Houston County, Georgia ............ Chapter XXII Page 71 g. Lewis Rumph-Third Generation ........................ Chapter XXIII Page 73 1. Jacob Vastine Rumph-Fourth Generation ............ Chapter XXIV Page 75 2. Samuel Lewis Rumph-Fourth Generation ............. Chapter XXV Page 76 3. Caroline Elizabeth Rumph Haslam-4th Generation .. Chapter XXVI Page 78 7. Josephine Claudia Everett-Fourth Generation ...... Chapter XXVII Page 78 8. Lewis Adolphus Rumph-Fourth Generation ........ Chapter XXVIII Page 80 h. Mary Elvira Rumph J ones--Third Generation ........... Chapter XXIX Page 82 i. Caroline Ann Rumph Frederick-Third Generation ........ Chapter XXX Page 91 Part VIII. V. David Rumph-Second Generation, son of Jacob Rumph I. .... Chapter XXXI Page 94 ADDENDA 1. "Partial History of the Rumph Ancestors,'' by JJr. James D. Rumph ........... Page 97 2. Duttwyler-Dettwyler-Dattwyler-Harrisperger

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