Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Stom

This is an attempt to pull all of the information I have on Mary Ann (Stom) Duck's (mother of Joseph A. Lumbard) family into one timeline, in the hopes it will give us more answers. 

Unknown Stom
Son of 
Born
Died
Married
Unknown
daughter of
Born
Died

Children:
Catherine Stom  -1900 m. Daniel Hahne/Hanes

Timeline:

?? Unknown Stam is Born
He apparently has at least one brother, from the census records that tell us Lucy Stam is a widow, living with Catherine (Kitty) Stamm, aunt of Mary Ann (Stom) Duck).  Currently I assume that Katy Stom was an unmarried sister of Unknown Stom.

July 1802 - Lucy is Born
UPDATE!  Lucy was Mary Ann (Stom) Duck's mother!
Lucy married a Stom, but I do not know who she married
Her tombstone gives us her age at death, and her death date.
The 1880 Census lists Lucy as widowed.  Her husband appears to have died before the 1850 census, when Lucy is found with Kittie Stom.  In 1860, still living with Kitty,  no occupation is given for Lucy, but the census tells us she cannot read.  Lucy appears to have moved between 1860 & 1870 - In the 1870 census she is in her own household, listed as a housekeeper.  Her real estate is listed at 300.
The census states that she cannot write, and there is a mark under the column for deaf, dumb, blind, insane or idiotic.

About Nov 1804 -  Catherine/Katy/Kittie Stom is born
Her tombstone gives her death date and age, although the days is unreadable, so November 1804 is the closes I can approximate.  Census records consistently work out to her being born around 1804 as well. 

She died April 10 1884.  

I don't know if she was born a Stom, or if she married a Stom.  There's no indication she was a widow, but no proof she wasn't, and on the whole, VERY little information about her that I can find.  


1850 - Residences
Name: Mary A Duck
Age: 23
Birth Year: abt 1827
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1850: Penns, Union, Pennsylvania
Gender: Female
Family Number: 1134
Household Members:
Name Age
Jacob Duck 26
Mary A Duck 23
Joseph Duck 6
Emma L Duck 1

(Note that Joseph Lumbard is listed as Joseph Duck in 1850 & 1860)



Also in the same township:
This is believed to be Mary Ann (Stom) Duck's mother, and another aunt - BUT in 1880, Widow Mary Duck lives with her "Aunt" Kittie, age 75, making her born about 1804.  So likely this Catherine, and the Kittie in 1880, are the same woman - meaning Catherine is Mary Ann's Aunt, not mother?

Name: Catharine Stam
Age: 46
Birth Year: abt 1804
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1850: Penns, Union, Pennsylvania
Gender: Female
Family Number: 1063
Household Members:
Name Age
Catharine Stam 46
Lycia Stam 42



ABT 1855 Daughter Catherine Stom married Daniel Hane

Her death certificate in 1900 states that she was first married at age 19. Unless she had another husband we do not know about, this would mean she married Daniel around 1855.

Name: Daniel Hanes
Gender: Male
Age: 82
Race: White
Birth Year: 1834
Death Date: 17 Dec 1916
Death Place: Plainfield, Kent, Michigan, USA

1860 - Residences


In 1860, Catherine Straum, Aunt of Mary Ann, lives with Lucy Straum
Name Catharine Staum
Age 55
Birth Year abt 1805
Gender Female
Birth Place Pennsylvania
Home in 1860 Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania
Post Office Selinsgrove
Dwelling Number 1331
Family Number 1360
Occupation Washerwoman
Real Estate Value 350
Personal Estate Value 100
Household Members
Name Age
Catharine Staum
Lucy Staum

No occupation is given for Lucy in 1860. There is a mark that she cannot read.

I do not know where Daniel & Catherine (Stam) Hanes are in 1860

1862 - Mary Ann (Stom) Duck's husband Jacob Duck dies
 "Jacob Duck instantly killed while cutting timber just west of town by falling dead tree"



1868 Selinsgrove Map

http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/14390/Selinsgrove/Union+and+Snyder+Counties+1868/Pennsylvania/




The 1868 Selinsgrove Map shows the property of J. Duck betwen Snyder and Walnut Streets, on Main Street.  

I cannot find any Stoms on the map.


1880 - Residences

Is Kittie the Aunt of Mary Duck, or the aunt of the Duck boys, Henry & Edward?  She's 75 years old in 1850- so either is possible, but I lean towards her being the aunt of Mary Ann.

Kittie Stamm is age 75 in 1880, meaning she was born about 1805


1870 - Residences

Name: Mary A Duck
Age in 1870: 42
Birth Year: abt 1828
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1870: Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania
Race: White
Gender: Female
Post Office: Selinsgrove
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Mary A Duck 42
William Duck 19
Edward Duck 3
Catharine Stom 66

In the 1870 census, a 66 year old Catherine Stom lives with them.  In 1880 A Kitty Staum, age 76, also lives with them, listed as "Aunt".




Lucy lives alone in 1870, listed as a housekeeper.  Her real estate is listed at 300.
The census states that she cannot write, and there is a mark under the column for deaf, dumb, blind, insane or idiotic.

1880 Residences:



 1880 Lucy is listed as widowed - so she is likely the sister in law of Catherine.



1900 Mary Ann (Stom) Duck Died
This is where we learn that Mrs. Daniel Hahne of Grand Rapids Michigan is her sister.

Death of Mother Duck

Death has again invaded the community and claimed one near and dear to the writer, even a  mother, in the person of Mrs. Mary A Duck, whose death took place Wednesday April 18th at a little past ten o'clock am at the home of her son William H. Duck in the East End.  The deceased was born in this place on the 8th day of June 1827 and was therefor in the 73rd year of her age.  The deceased had been in ill health from the holidays of the present year.  About the 15th of last November she went to Williamsport to visit her youngest son E.E. Duck.  After a stay of about six weeks she began to long anxiously for a return home.  Ed accompanied her back to her old home.  after a stay of a week with the family of her son Henry and about two weeks in the home of the editor, and after which she remained with the family of her son William until she crossed over and beyond the river.   Soon after her return home from Williamsport her friends noticed that her once strong and robust constitution was surely giving way to the encroachment of the insidious disease which had fastened itself upon her and which was early in her sickness pronounced incurable by her physician Dr F.J. Wagenseller  her friends watched her growing weaker day by day until the end came and her immortal spirit freed itself from its frail tenement of clay and winged itself into the presence of the God who gave it.  She was a good mother, and no one knows this better than her children, and now she has been removed from them they will miss her wise counsel and words of admonition.  The deceased leaved to surved her four sons, the editor of this aper, William Hall Duck employed by Pencoyd bridge co, H J. Duck employed in the government printing office, and E. E. Duck employed in L Stearns & Cos Store, Williamsport; three daughters preceded her to the spirit world.  There are nine grand-children and nine great-grandchildren.  She also has one sister, Mrs Daniel Hahne of Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Mother Duck for more than a half-century was a member of the Reformed Church.  The funeral obsequies will be held at the home of her son where she died, Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock.  Internment at the family burial plot in the Reformed Cemetery.

1900 - Catherine (Stom) Hanes Died
Catherine died August 25 1900, at age 65.
The Transcript of her death certificate gives her birthdate as 1835, (January? 15)
She was married age 19, with 2 children, one who was living at the time of her death.
Her parents are listed as born in PA, but her mothers name is unknown and her father is listed only as Stom or Stam.
She died of vascular heart disease.



Burials:
Catherine (Kitty), Lucy, and Mary Ann are all buried right near each other in the Reformed Church Cemetery in Selinsgrove Pa.  I have not seen the churches cemetery records (I would like to!) but I can find no other Stoms in the cemetery, there appear to be no male Stoms there at all.  Mary Ann's sister, Catherine (Stom) Hanes, was buried in Michigan.





No comments:

Post a Comment

Almeda Lucretia Lumbard 1842-1911

Is this possibly the sister of Joseph Lumbard, who was from Danville & came to visit?? In reading this, I always thought it meant that ...