Mary Ann Stom
Daughter Of
Born: June 1827 in Snyder County Pa
Died: 18 Apr 1900 in Snyder County, Pa
Married
(1) Josiah Lumbard (likely not married)
Son of
Born: in Maine (According to Joseph's death certificate)
Died:
Married 1845 in Penn Twp, Snyder Co PA
(2) Jacob Duck
Born: Sept 1 1822
Died: Dec 12 1862
Children to Josiah Lumbard:
Children to Jacob Duck:
(obit tells us that 3 daughters preceded her in death)
Emma Duck 1849 - before 1860
William H. Duck 1851-1920 m. Mary Elizabeth Yoxtheimer
Henry Duck 1856-1928 m. Della Jane Frontz
Mary Duck 1858
Edward E. Duck 1867-1940 m. Sara Ella Albert
Below is a timeline with as much research as I have been able to gather on Mary Ann. For years, she has been listed as Mary Ann Stoner in genealogies, but the records I have found list her as a Stom, or Staum. Her sister, who is listed in Mary Ann's obit, has a death certificate in Michigan (where the obit stated that she lived) and it lists her father as "Stam" or possible "Stom". Mother is unknown, and no first name is given for her father, unfortunately.
1827
The death certificates for two of her children list her birth place as Snyder County Pennsylvania.
1844 - son Joseph Asher Lumbard is born
Family accounts say that Joseph's father was a traveling salesman from Maine, and was not married to Mary Ann. Joseph's birth certificate lists his father as Josiah Lumbard of Maine.
A family account talks about a sister of Josiah, who lived in Danville Pa.
Look at the Asher name - Why is Joseph's middle name Asher? Is there a family connection? Also - are we SURE it is Josiah, and not Joseph?
1845 - Mary married Jacob Duck
1849 Daughter Emma Duck is born
she apparently died before 1860
Home in 1850: Penns, Union, Pennsylvania
Emma L Duck 1
(Note that Joseph Lumbard is listed as Joseph Duck in 1850 & 1860)
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
In 1880 A Kitty Staum, age 76, also lives with them, listed as "Aunt".
Another researcher lists Johannes Adam Stamm 1780-1861 & Elizabeth Keen 1786-1864 as the parents of Catherine Stam.
1851 - Son William Hall Duck is born
Home in 1860: Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania
Value of real estate: View image
Mary Duck 2
In 1860, Catherine Straum, Aunt of Mary Ann, lives with Lucy Straum
Name: Catharine Staum
Age in 1860: 55
Birth Year: abt 1805
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1860: Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania
Gender: Female
Post Office: Selinsgrove
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Catharine Staum 55
Lucy Staum 52
Catherine is listed as a washwoman. Lucy has no occupation listed.
1862 - Her husband Jacob Duck dies
"Jacob Duck instantly killed while cutting timber just west of town by falling dead tree"
1863 - Receives letter from oldest son Joseph, who is serving in Civil War
Camp on the Rapidan Sept. 22nd 1863
Dear Mother,
Your very long looked for letter at length arrived and was received with great pleasure and satisfaction I am very pleased to hear that you are all well and that things are going so well. We are encamped in sight of the govnt Rebels. We are laying on one side of the Rapidan River and they are on the other. Our Pickets are within shooting distance of each other but since the first day they do not fire on each other. I was down to the river yesterday and there had a very good sight of the rebel soldier big as life on the other side of the stream which is not near as wide as Penns Creek and our pickets are on this side of it. They are very strongly fortified and will make a pretty good show of a fight but I have no doubt but that we will be able to drive them from the mountains upon which they are fortified: There is no telling when the fight will take place as we have had orders to be ready to fall in at a moments notice for the last week, but I think that a fight will very shortly take place. Well, I think that we are ready and will be more than a good match for them. You told me to obey Capt. Davis. There is no danger that I will disobey him I like the Captain very much. He is a brave and good officer and all the boys are very proud of him. He is _________________ and is very kind to me. I am sixth corporal and soon will be fifth. Theodore Parks Is 2nd Lieut. I also like Nel Byers. He has been very kind to me and used me as well as could be expected by ones own brother, but I like the Captain best. I get letters most every week from Mrs. Henry Bright In Sunbury and: you can __________________ and 20 miles around. she has sent me paper and postage stamps. Several times I wrote a long letter to Lock Haven but did not get an answer. I do not know whether she got it or not. I would very much like to hear from her often and if she would answer my letters I would write regular to her. Tell her this in your next letter, give her my address and then she can send: them right on to me. Tell her to address J. .A Lumbard Co. G, 147th PV ft Brig. 2nd Div. 12th Army Corps, Washington, D.C..
I got the postage stamps and all the things you have even sent. Shirts, tea, chocolate, paper, envelopes, handkerchief and so forth. Leut. Byers has not arrived here yet, consequently I did not get the things you sent by him, but will when he comes. ______ told me to keep ____________________________________________________________________ as there is no telling. If I live you will never suffer but should be killed
It might go very hard with you but we will hope for the best. It is all in the hands of the Ruler of the Universe and: as he wills it so it goes and we must think all is for the best. Should I fall it will not be in a Disgraceful manner _____________________________ ______________________that is right and just. Just think what would have become of the people if we had not whipped the Rebel Army at Gettysburg. I seen dozens of
people turned out of their homes and their grain destroyed and houses burnt and in some instances men, women and children killed but we sure drove them out of the old Keystone state and soon hope to see them conquered. Don’t alarm yourself about my writing to that girl I have written my last letter and am satisfied. I just wanted to find out something and; when that is done, I am done also. I did not think she was such a darn fool as to blow about it but would keep it a secret since it has turned out as it did I have written my last to her.
I must bring my letter to a close. Give my best respects to Mrs. Davis. Tell Katy to write another big letter like the last one. Tell me what
Became of______________________________________________________________
you can send; me some this week. Write soon. I remain your affectionate son
J. A. Lumbard
Ms. Davis
Madam
Please hand this to .Mrs. Mary Duck. I direct this letter in your name so that mother gets it immediately for fear that she might not send to the office. Am obliged.
Your soldier friend.
J. A. Lumbard
1868 - Map of Selinsgrove Pa
1870
Name: Mary A Duck
Home in 1870: Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania
Value of real estate: View image
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.
In 1880 Lucy is listed as widowed - so she is likely the sister in law of Catherine.
1873 - Son William Marries
Name: Elizabeth Yoxtheimer
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 11 Feb 1872
Marriage Place: Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania, USA
Spouse Name: William H Duck
Denomination: Methodist
Organization Name: Wesley United Methodist Church
William's Occupation is listed as Shoemaker
1880 - In 1880, Mary's occupation is "baker"
Home in 1880: Selins Grove, Snyder, Pennsylvania
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Neighbors: View others on page
Edward Duck 17
1880 has her listed as Kittie Staum, listed as the head of household #108. She is 75, listed
as single, and "Aunt" as her relationship. Under her name are Mary Duck, 52, Henry Duck 24 and Edward Duck 17, all in household #108.
The index is transcribed incorrectly, so on ancestry she shows up at the Aunt of the Peck family above, but on the image it is clear that she is listed with the Duck family.
The tombstone of Katy (Kitty/Catherine) Straum an be found here:
This is the same cemetery where Mary Ann Duck & her husband are buried, as well as Lucy Straum.
Katy's death certificate gives her death date, and her age. Without the exact number of days (not readable) and using a tombstone calulator, her birthday comes out to December 1804. This lines up with the Catherine in 1870, and Kitty in 1880, who live with Mary Ann Duck, and is listed as her Aunt.
In 1880 Lucy is listed as Lucie M. Staum, 72, a widow, living alone in household #193.
On the same page of the census can be found Joseph Lumbard (son of Mary Ann Duck) & Joseph Scharf (Joseph married Sarah E. Scharf)
She did not die until 1882.
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Mary Stoner is the mother of Joseph Lumbard. He wrote a letter to her, addressed to "Mother Duck", while in the civil war. We assume she married a Lumbard, and that he died before she married Jacob Duck, but I can find no record of who her first husband may have been.
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 - Mary's sister Catherine Hanes died
Research:
From the files of Howard Scharf. He cannot remember who gave this to him, but it was obviously written by a grandchild of Joseph Lumbard.
LUMBARD
Joseph Lumbard was born in Selinsgrove. His father was a traveling salesman from New England and in those days a salesman came to town by train or canal boat and would stay in town for several days. Joseph Lumbard was illegitimate, His father never returned to Selinsgrove but he had a sister from Danville who used to come and visit.
I remember one time when I was still living in Middleburg and was about four years of age, she came to visit us, She was dressed in green silk which made a noise when she moved. It had lots of lace made in the style of the late nineties.
When grandfather was about 15 he enlisted in the Army and was in the entire Civil War, He was only wounded once, when a piece of shell at Gettysburg hit him back of the ear When he returned to Selinsgrove after the war, he drank too much, I remember two interesting stories about him, Grandmother would not allow him to kiss her before the marriage, On the way to the minister (in a buggy he had hired to drive her to be married) he asked for one kiss and she replied "You have waited this long, you can wait another hour".
After the marriage he still drank. One night he was lying drunk in the gutter outside of the Methodist Church in Selinsgrove while a revival service was going on, He woke up and heard the singing, got up and went into the church, listened to the sermon and went up front when sinners were called. He went home sober and never again touched a drop of liquors In those days almost everyone kept a bottle of whiskey for colds. I know we did in our house, but Grandfather Lumbard never allowed one in his home.
His mother later married a man named Duck and had several children. I used to visit her home in Selinsgrove and knew Hazel Duck. She used to take me to Rolling Green Park. Grandpa Duck was dead and Grandmother Duck earned the living by baking bread. There was a large outdoor oven in the yard where the bread was baked and it always smelled so good around there. Besides Hazel there were several older girls who were married and I never knew them, but two brothers moved to Williamsport. When I was 10 or 11 years of age I used to visit Uncle Edward Duck. He was a floor walker in the rug dep. Of the big department store there. They were always very nice to me. After my mother had her operation in Williamsport, she went to Uncle Eds to get well.
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Howard Scharf remembers that Joseph's father was a traveling salesman from New England, and that Joseph was born illigitimate - Mary Ann never married him.
"Josiah Lumbard was born in Maine circa 1820's. He came to PA early 1840's.
in 1844 he fathered my GGreat grandfather Joseph Ashur Lumbard. Can't
find marriage information, but I believe Josiah was married to Mary Ann
Stoner of Selinsgrove, Snyder County, PA. He either died or moved on before
1850 because the census shows Mary Ann married to Jacob Duck and lists her
young son Joseph Lumbard as a member of the household." "She was married to Jacob Duck by 1850. Mary Ann and Jacob Duck and her small son Joseph Ashur Lumbard (c1844) were in the 1850 census. She lived in Selinsgrove and was born in 1827. I know a lot about her later life, but nothing of her early life. She was probably about 18 years old when Joseph was born. I know that Josiah Lumbard was from Maine because his name was on my GGrandfathers death certificate as 'Father'
and Mary Ann Stoner's name was also there as 'mother'." - From researcher Peggy Brill
Who Are Her Parents?
If Stohm/Stom/Staum
In Mary's obit her son JA Lumbard refers to her being buried "in the family graveyard" - the Reformed Church Cemetery. In that cemetery there are no Lumbards, and the only Duck is Mary's husband Jacob. There are two Stohm's listed there:
Lucy Stohm
Birth: unknown
Death: May 3, 1882
aged 74 y 9 m 4 d.
Kitty (Katy) Stohm
Birth: unknown
Death: Apr. 10, 1884
Aged 79y 4m & ?d.
(I suspect this may be Catherine, mother of Mary Ann)
Two of Mary's sons show her name as Stom/Staum on their death certificates.
In 1860 in the census we find -
Name: Catharine Staum
Age in 1860: 55
Birth Year: abt 1805
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1860: Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania
Gender: Female
Post Office: Selinsgrove
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Catharine Staum 55
Lucy Staum 52
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Misc Unconnected Records -
Name: Stamm Johannes
Birth Date: 10 Aug 1808
Event Type: Baptism
Baptism Date: 6 Nov 1808
Baptism Place: Hecktown, Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA
Baptism Age: 0
Father Name: Johannes Staum
Mother Name: Catharina Staum
Organization Name: Dryland Reformed (with private records of Rev Martin A Smith)
Name: Mary Catherine Staumm
Arrival Date: 20 Aug 1839
Age: 34
Gender: F (Female)
Port of Arrival: New York
Port of Departure: Bremen
Place of Origin: Germany
Destination: United States of America
Ship: Bark Charlotte
Microfilm Serial Number: M237
Microfilm Roll Number: 39
List Number: 601
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Edward Duck, half brother of former Selinsgrove Editor J.A. Lumbard (my ggg grandfather), wrote a regular letters to the paper in the mid 1930s. They were published under a column titled "Do You Remember?"
On March 1936, his column mentioned that he had received a letter from His Majesty King Edward , acknowledging a brief condolance and poem Duck had sent after the January 1936 death of the Kings father, King George [King Edward VIII abdicated the thrown in December of 1936, to the marry the American Wallis Simpson]
Duck said he would keep the letter with a silk hankerchief he had waved at President Teddy Roosevelt when the President had passed down Market Street [Selinsgrove] in the parade to the Capital dedication [1906]. And then Duck went on to list other Presidential appearances in our area that he had been present for.
1906 - President Teddy Roosevelt passed through Selinsgrove in a parade to the capital dedication in Harrisburg.
?? - President Teddy Roosevelt addressed a political gathering at the Lycoming Opera House in Williamsport
?? President Tafts train stopped at Park Hotel Station
?? Three time candidate for President, William J. Bryan at the Methodist Church
Dec 1917 - Former President Taft spoke at at the M.E. Church in favor of the Red Cross drive.
1928 - President Hoover when he passed through Williamsport on his way to J. Cooks fishing lodge
Duck also mentions being on the first Steam Line train that came into Williamsport, where he "saw the magnificently arranged interior."
Of seeing Roosevelt in Selinsgrove, Duck wrote:
"I waved to President Teddy Roosevelt when he passed down Market street in the parade on his way to the capitol in Harrisburg on the day of the dedication.
He was standing in the carriage and when he saw my continual waving and when he heard me shout he turned his face right directly towards me, smiles, and bowed. I was on the front rank and only about fifteen feet from the carriage"
