Magdalene Richards was the daughter of John and Sarah Ellsworth Richards. She was born in what was Augusta County VA, and grew up on the frontier in Harrison County VA, surrounded by a large extended family, including several famous uncles. Her grandfather may have been Johannes Reicherd/Reichert, who immigrated from Rotterdam to Philadelphia PA on 27 AUG 1739, on the "Snow Bettsey", Richard Budden in command. (Source: "Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1775", by Ralph Beaver Strassburger and edited by William John Hinke, originally published in 1934, (Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co.), 1966, Vols. I-II, pp. 258, 260 & 263, List 69-70 A, B & C.)
Magdalene Richards Stump's grave monument shows her dying in 1837, though Thurman Stump's "Michael Stump Sr. of Virginia, 1709 - 1768, A Treatise on the Origin and Ancestry, With Surname Armorials" (McClain Printing Company, Parsons WV 26287: 1975), states that she died in 1832. The spelling of her first name was taken from the grave monument.
The date and place of Michael Stump and Magdalena Richards' marriage was documented in "The History of Harrison County", by Henry Haymond, (1910). In her marriage record, her name was Magdalena.
Magdalene Richards Stump's grave monument shows her dying in 1837, though Thurman Stump's "Michael Stump Sr. of Virginia, 1709 - 1768, A Treatise on the Origin and Ancestry, With Surname Armorials" (McClain Printing Company, Parsons WV 26287: 1975), states that she died in 1832. The spelling of her first name was taken from the grave monument.
The date and place of Michael Stump and Magdalena Richards' marriage was documented in "The History of Harrison County", by Henry Haymond, (1910). In her marriage record, her name was Magdalena.
Magdalene Richards was the daughter of John and Sarah Ellsworth Richards. She was born in what was Augusta County VA, and grew up on the frontier in Harrison County VA, surrounded by a large extended family, including several famous uncles. Her grandfather may have been Johannes Reicherd/Reichert, who immigrated from Rotterdam to Philadelphia PA on 27 AUG 1739, on the "Snow Bettsey", Richard Budden in command. (Source: "Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1775", by Ralph Beaver Strassburger and edited by William John Hinke, originally published in 1934, (Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co.), 1966, Vols. I-II, pp. 258, 260 & 263, List 69-70 A, B & C.)
Magdalene Richards Stump's grave monument shows her dying in 1837, though Thurman Stump's "Michael Stump Sr. of Virginia, 1709 - 1768, A Treatise on the Origin and Ancestry, With Surname Armorials" (McClain Printing Company, Parsons WV 26287: 1975), states that she died in 1832. The spelling of her first name was taken from the grave monument.
The date and place of Michael Stump and Magdalena Richards' marriage was documented in "The History of Harrison County", by Henry Haymond, (1910). In her marriage record, her name was Magdalena.
Magdalene Richards Stump's grave monument shows her dying in 1837, though Thurman Stump's "Michael Stump Sr. of Virginia, 1709 - 1768, A Treatise on the Origin and Ancestry, With Surname Armorials" (McClain Printing Company, Parsons WV 26287: 1975), states that she died in 1832. The spelling of her first name was taken from the grave monument.
The date and place of Michael Stump and Magdalena Richards' marriage was documented in "The History of Harrison County", by Henry Haymond, (1910). In her marriage record, her name was Magdalena.
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