Thomas Cullumber
Cullember-Cullumber
Colember-Culumber
Thomas F. Cullumber, son of John Cullumber.
I have speculated that his middle name may have been Ferguson after his
possible grandfather, Thomas Ferguson. Most of John's children
did not have middle names or initials, whereas Thomas always used his
middle initial. I have a copy of a letter which he signed.
The middle
initial is clearly an F.
Thomas F. Cullumber was born 22 January 1817, died
28 July 1893, buried: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, West Jefferson, Madison
County, Ohio.(1) According to his death record, he was born in Madison
County, and died in Franklin County, Ohio. The date of death in
the death record is 4 July 1893, aged 76 years, 4 months and 10 days.
(2)
Tombstones in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, West
Jefferson, Madison County, Ohio:
1
obelisk, about 3 feet high with names on each of four faces:
Thomas F. Cullumber 22 January 1817
died 28 July 1893 Co K 1st OVC
Emily S. wife of T F Cullumber
born 5 May 1815 died 29 September 1870
Thomas A. Cullumber born 14 Mar 1856
died 14 Sep 1867
William Lilly born 3 January 1803 died
5 June 1871 [Note: This is Emily's brother.]
The death record is unlikely
to be correct because of the obituary
which is dated 1 August 1893.(3) There is no record of his first
marriage in the Madison County records, or in surrounding
counties. However, Thomas’s obituary states that he married
(first) Susan Lilly, the youngest daughter of Mr. A. Lilly and his wife
of Lily Chapel.(4) In a county history article, Elizabeth (Cullumber)
Clover states that her parents were T. H. Culumber and Emily Susan
(Lilly) Culumber.(5) The information about his middle initial is wrong.
His middle initial was clearly an F. in his signature.(6) Emily Susan
(Lilly) Cullumber’s tombstone in Pleasant Hill Cemetery reads:
Emily S. Cullumber, wife of T. F. Cullumber, born 15 May 1815, died
September 1870.(7) According to the death records of Madison County, E.
S. Cullumber died 29 September 1870, Fairfield Township, Madison
County, Ohio. She died of rheumatism, aged 55, a farmer. The
death record erroneously listed her as male.(8) She appears with the
same birth date in a transcript of the bible record of Armiger Lilly
and Rebecca, his wife. Elijah and Nancy Lilly also appear in this bible
record. If the bible is accurate, the three were siblings. However, the
location of the original of this bible record is still a mystery.(9)
Thomas married (second) 5 February 1874, in Franklin
County, Ohio, by Rev. J. H. Gardner, Sarah Heflin.(10) Sarah (Eachus)
Heflin Cullember was born ca. 31 May 1820, Indiana, as she died 12
February 1889, aged 68 years, 8 months, 12 days in Pleasant Township,
Franklin County, Ohio, of pneumonia.(11) Sarah was the sister of John
W. Eachus of Madison County, Ohio.(12) Miss Sarah Eachus married 15
April 1852, in Madison County, Ohio, William Heflin. She was married by
Abraham Wright.(13) There was a William Heflin, who died 9 September
1870, aged 59, in Fairfield Township, Madison County, Ohio of
congestion and chill.(14) This person was likely to have been her
husband. Note from [email protected] dated 7/28/2003 The William
you speak of is William Ellis Heflin (1811-1870 s/o William
Hefflin Jr. (1777-1853) and Susannah Sukey Ellis. William Ellis Heflin
first married 1839 Jemima Ann Jackson and then 1853 Sarah Eaches.
From unknown County History: JOHN W. EACHUS, farmer,
P. O. London, Ohio, was born near Richmond. Ind., October 4, 1829. His
mother, Elizabeth Troxel, was a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Troxel,
who came from Virginia to Ohio during the second decade of the present
century. Our subject's father went West after marriage, and rented land
until 1833, when he returned to Ohio and remained until his death,
which occurred in August. 1856. He had a family of nine children-four
sons and five daughters. Of the latter, the survivors are Sallie, wife
of Thomas Cullumber, of Franklin County: Elizabeth A., wife of Moses
Seads, of Pickaway County: and Caroline. wife of William Keg, of
Franklin County. The subject of this sketch remained at home in
Franklin County with hi; parents until his marriage, when he rented a
farm for five years, and in 1864 he came to where he now lives. In
1854, he married Sarah L. Hutson, daughter of John K. Hutson, whose
sketch appears under the name of Austin S. Hutson. Mr. Eachus. by his
marriage, has had six children. viz.. Viola (wife of Frank Mitchell),
Orianna (wife of John Sifrit), Eugenia J. (wife of Harry Barker), John
W. Scott M. and Holton. Mr. Eachus is a prominent man in his township.
and for nine terms served as one of the Board of Trustees. His wife is
a member of the Methodist Church.
Thomas married (third) 25 March 1889, in Franklin County, Ohio, Jane
Cramlit.(15) Margaret Jane Cramblit was born 7 April 1842, Hocking
County, Ohio, died 4 April 1925, College Hill, Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, at the Methodist Home for Aged. According to the records
of this home, she was the daughter of Perry G. Cramblit, born Maryland,
and Elizabeth Flaugh, born Guernsey County, Ohio. She was buried in
Section 60, lot 17, Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati.(16) According
to the form in Thomas’s Civil War Pension file, she was born in
1840.(17)
Obituary
Tuesday,
1 August 1893, London (Ohio)
Semi-Weekly Enterprise: Thomas Collumber,
an old and respected citizen of Georgesville, Ohio, died last Friday
morning at 8 a.m of a complication of diseases, age 76 years, 6 months,
6 days. He was the second son of John and Patsie Collumber,
pioneers of Franklin County. Out of a family of 12 children only
one remains, William, of Washington County, Iowa.
Thomas Collumber’s first wife was Susan, youngest daughter of A.
Lilly and wife, of Lilly Chapel. Of eight born to this union six
survive him, viz: Mrs. Elizabeth Clover, Mrs. Sarah Stoner, Mrs.
Rebecca McDowell and William of Cambridge, Kansas; Mary E., wife of
Thomas Goodson of London, Ohio; and Margaret, wife of J. M. Morris, of
Lilly Chapel, Ohio. His wife, Susan, died in 1870. In 1875,
he was married to Mrs. Sarah Hefflin, who only lived a short time. In
1888, he married Miss Jane Cramblet, who still survives.(19)
He enlisted in Co. K, 1st Ohio Cavalry, serving 3 years, participating
in the battles of Chicamaugua, Stone River, and the famous Kilpatrick
Raid.
His funeral was held in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lilly Chapel
Sunday at 2 PM, Rev. S. K. King of Columbus officiating, assisted by
Rev. Marshall of Lilly Chapel. The remains were deposited in the
vault at West Jefferson, Ohio.
The eight children of Thomas F. Cullumber and Emily Susan Lilly are
listed in the county history article by their daughter Elizabeth
(Cullumber) Clover. Six of them are also listed in his
obituary.
1870
Letter
There are a number of spellings
for this surname in the family records. In this case, he left a
letter with his signature so we can be certain of how he spelled it.
The following transcription keeps spelling and grammatical errors
because they are part of the flavor of the times. His handwriting is
flowery but very legible. The letter was apparently written to James
Clover, son of Elkanah Clover and Susan Gardner. It was in a
packet of letters which his grand daughter,
Maxine Putnam, found. She sent me a photocopy of this letter
before she died. He is referring to Benjamin Clover who had
married his daughter, Elizabeth Lilly Cullumber.
West Jefferson, Ohio 24 June 1870
Mr. Clover, Dear Sir,
I received your letter written June 18 which found
us enjoying tolerable good health. I frequently see your Uncle Billy
Gardiner at church at Lilly Chappel, his health is verry good.
You wanted to know Ben Clover’s address we
direct to Grouse Creek, Cowley Co., Ks. We received a letter from him a
few days ago. He thinks it is the gratest country in the world he
says he likes it better and better evry day. I have two children there
and two more that wants to go and I don’t know but what I shall
go before a great while.
Well, I will close, yours respectfully,
[signature ]Thos. F. Cullumber
PS Tell Henry Lilly I want to see him concerning that what we was
talking about. If he is married tell him to bring his wife along
and pay us a visit.
Land
and Tax Records:
Madison Co, OH Tax Duplicate at County Auditor's Office, London, Ohio
1850 Fairifeld Township Lands
Thomas Cullumber
Entry 6570 Original Grant 82, W Pelham
67 acres value $423
state $1.35.3, Co. 1.48, special 1.05.07 total 3.89
John Cullumber's
heirs same location
119 acres value
$752 state 2.40.6, co 2.63.2, spec 0.37.6 total 5.41.4
Fairfield Twp
Chattel Property
Armiger Lilly value
$20, tax 3.13.4
James
Lilly value $407, div 4 1.02.9, $3.14.7
Thomas Cullumber
value 215, div 4, 9.53.7 $1.97.7
1861/1862 Thomas Cullumber--Armiger
Lilly on Tax List so Armiger died after this.
Land Records:
Thomas Columbar by Frank J. Reinhard to W.B. Beebe, auctioned for
non-payment of taxes, 3 1/2 acres in entry No 6370 in Pleasant Twp,
Franklin Co, OH. Deed dated and recorded 21 Jan 1886.
Thos Cullumber and Sarah, his wife, of Franklin Co, OH to Archibald
Taner, for $72.50, lot # 35 in J S Moore's additions to the town of
Georgesville, Pleasant Twp, Franklin Co, OH. Deed dated 21 April
1880, recorded 5 June 1880.
---Extracted from xeroxed copies of deeds in
Franklin County Courthouse, Columbus, Ohio.
The land upon which Thomas Cullumber lived was partly in Madison County
and partly in Franklin County. This may partially explain why he
and several other families who lived on the same road were omitted from
the 1850 census.
Madison county Deed Books, Madison county courthouse, London, OH:
Bk 41 p 366 6 Mar 1880: Thomas Cullumber to William Cullumber 86 88/100
acres in 6570 signed by Thomas and Sarah Cullumber
Bk 8 p 517 1 Dec 1834: John Columber of Franklin Co from Matthew Bonner
of Chillicothe 149 acres in 6570
bk 12 p 412 1839 64 acres same as bk 8 p 517
bk 15 p 146 8 Jul 1843: Thomas Cullumber from John and Matilda
Cullumber 64 acres
in 6570 part of tract of 149 acres.
v 28 p 338 15 Dec 1854: Wesley Lilly to Thomas Cullumber 30 acres in
6570, part of John Culluber's estate.
v 28 p 611 1 Mar 1855 Thomas Cullumber from Matilda Byers, 166 acres in
6570.
Madison Co Deedbook # 22 p 277 LDS film # 0545158
Edward McCormick, Shff deed to Thomas Cullumber & Wesley Lilly
To all to whom these presents shall come greeting whereas on the fifth
day of July in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and
fifty one Thomas Culember of Madison County Ohio filed his certain
petition in the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of
Madison against Wesley Lilly, Allen Culember, Elijah Lilly, Nancy
Lilly, John Morford, Mary Morford, John Colember, Tabitha Gardiner,
Benjamin Gardiner, Alfred Culember, Margaret Cullumber, Samuel
Oglesvie, Martha Oglesvie amending partition of certain real estate
here in after described and whereas such proceedings were had upon said
petition that the commissioners appointed by said court to make
partition of said estate made report the partition of the same could
not be made without manifest injury and that the value thereof was
thirteen dollars per acre and whereas at
the term of said court AD 1853, the
report of said commissioners was approved and confirmed by said court
and the said Thomas Cullumber and Wesley Lilly _____to take said estate
at the valuation of said commissioners and having paid to the said
Allen Cullumber, Elijah Lilly, Nancy Lilly, John Morford, Mary Morford,
John Cullumber, Tabitha Gardiner, Benjamin Gardiner, Alfred Cullumber,
Margaret Cullumber, Samuel Oglesvie and Martha Oglesvie their
respective proportions of the appraised value thereof the said court
did discharge said estate to the said Thomas Cullumber and Wesley Lilly
and did order the said sheriff to execute a deed in fee simple for the
same to the said Thomas Cullumber and Wesley Lilly all of which will
more fully appear reference being had to the records of said court now
therefore I Edward McCormack the Sheriff aforesaid in consideration of
the premises and by virtue of the powers in me vested by law do by
these presents grant bargain and convey unto the said Thomas
Cullumber and Wesley Lilly and unto their heirs and assigns forever the
said real estate so adjudged as aforesaid to the said Thomas Cullumber
and Wesley Lilly and which is bounded and described as follows to wit:
Beginning in the easterly line of William Pelhams survey No 6510, 136
poles from the most easterly corner of said survey at two red elms and
a burr oak thence s 60 w 175 poles to a black oak and hickory thence S
30 W 136 poles to two black oaks thence S 60 E 175 poles to two
hickorys and a large black oak in said easterly line thence with said
line s 30 e 136 poles to the beginning containing one hundred and fifty
acres of land more or less and part of Survey No 66570l saving and
excepting therefrom the following described premises part and parcel of
the above described tract of land sold by the said John Cullumber
deceased to the said Thomas Cullumber to wit, Beginning at two
hickories and a large black oak in the east line of survey No 6570 of
which this is a part thence 60 w 80 poles to a hickory thence S 30 E 40
poles to a hickory thence S 54 E 75 poles to a stake thence 20 poles to
a stake in the east line of said survey thence N 30 W 61 poles to the
beginning containing 30 acres of lank be the same more less on the
waters of Little Darby so called with all and singular the
appurtenances to have and to hold the said premises to them the said
Thomas Cullumber and Wesley Lilly and to their heirs and assigns
forever . 24 May 1853 deed recorded 28 May 1853
Military
Records
Military Service Record: Thomas
Collember enlisted for a term of 3 years on 27 September 1861 at West
Jefferson, Ohio in K Company, 1st Ohio Cavalry Regiment.
Enrollment records describe him as 44 years old, blue eyes, dark hair,
dark complexion. born in Franklin Co, OH. He provided his own horse and
equipment and was owed $23.60 on Jan and Feb 1862 Muster roll. He
was mustered out at Columbia, TN at the expiration of his enlistment
term on 1 Oct 1864. Records further show his absence in 20 Apr
1863 detailed to go to Louisville, Kentucky after horses;
September 1863 attending to led(sic) horses; Oct 1863 absent on courier
duty from Chatanooga, to Washington, Tennessee; Dec 1863 and Jan 1864
in charge of extra horses; February 1864 absent on detached duty with
2nd Cav Div Calhoun, Tennessee by virtue of non-enlistment; July 1864
charge of extra horses.
---Extracted from
xeroxed original documents from Archives.
Civil War Pension file # 335248,
National Archives,
Washington, DC
Thomas Cullumber
Enlisted 27 August 1861 at Amity, discharged 6 October 1864. He died 28
July 1893, buried 30 July 18933 from letter from Theo Howard of
Howard Bros, Undertakers, Individual Pension filed 10 May 1881,
lists death of former wife[Sarah Heflin] 12 February 1889, Funeral 14
Feb 1889, married Margaret J 25 Mar 1889, Margaret not married
previously, Margaret pension $8 applied for 14 Aug 1893, paid from 29
Jul 1893, Margaret died 4 Apr 1926 at Methodist Home for aged College
Hill, Ohio.
Plain City, OH June 30, 1885 to the Honorable J C Black, Comm Pensions
Washington, DC
Herewith are affidavits of Lt R K Reece and myself in testimony
in the matter of Thos Cullumber's claim no 422360. We
Prefer to send them directly to the Dept and have every reason to
consider it an honest claim.
Cullumber was one of the best of soldiers--On the skirmish line
the old man used to very carefully wipe his spectacles with the
corner of his blouse before putting them on to aim.
Signed: Corydon S
Irwin
Notary: E H Clover
Witness: James Lilly
---Extracted from
Civil War Pension File 335248, National Archives
∙
1860 Madison County, OH Fairfield Twp page 438A: 229/242: William
Heflin 48 VA Farmer, Sarah aged 38 Indiana plus 8 children.
∙
1860 Madison County, OH Fairfield Twp page 437B, 719/732 NARA M653 roll
1004: Thomas Cullumber 44 Farmer OH $4000/1400; Emily S. 44 VA; Mary 14
OH; Rebbecca A. 12 OH; Margaret 10 OH; Willliam 8 OH; Sarah C. 7 OH;
Thomas A. 4 OH; Alfred Cullumber 20 OH Farmhand $577 personal property;
Armiger Lilly 78 VA Retired; William Lilly 56 VA Farmer [no property
values listed].
∙
1870 Madison County, OH Fairfield Twp M59 3 roll 1238, page 622B, line
22: 58/57 Thomas Culumber 53 Farmer $6000/2500 OH; Emily 55 Keeps House
VA; Margaret 21 Helps Mother OH; William 19 Farm Labor OH; Sarah 17
Helps Mother OH; William Lilly 67 Retired Farmer Virginia; Charles
Harris 9 black Laborer OH; William Reynolds 40 Farm Labor OH
∙
1870 Madison County, OH Fairfield Twp PO M593 roll 1238, page 628B,
Line 31, 151/146: William Fitzgerald 66 retired farmer $9000/1605 VA;
Hannah 64 VA; Jane Cramblet 26 OH Domestic Servant.
∙
1880 Madison County, Ohio London FHL Film 1255044 National
Archives Film T9-1044 Page 249B, Hulda COCHRAN Self F W W 54 OH
Keeping House RI RI; Jane CRABLT Other F S W 38 OH MD OH
∙
1880 Franklin County, Ohio Georgesville [Pleasant Township], roll 1015,
ED 1, page 17A: Thomas Cullumber 63 Farmer OH OH Kty; Sarah 60 wife IN
VA VA.
∙
1900 Franklin County, Ohio Pleasant Twp roll 1270, page 222A, ED 136,
30/31: Margaret Cullember born April 1840, age 59 Widow, married 5
years marked through, OH MD OH, O-O children; Jesse K. Grace boarder
born Aug 1835, aged 65 Widow married 28 years Children blank, OH VA VA
∙
1910 Franklin County, OH Pleasant Twp, Precinct A, ED 193, sheet 6B,
Visit 133, line 69: Margaret Cullumber Head 68 Widowed OH MD OH and
lodger.
∙
1920 Franklin County, OH Pleasant Twp, T625 roll 1380, ED 299, sheet 1,
line 43: Marget J. Cullumber 72 OH MD OH; Martha Ayale Companion 51 OH
NY NY
The following two pictures were sent
to me by Faye Cullumber some years ago.
Emily Susan Lilly Cullumber
Emily Cullumber died in September
1870. Shortly after that, her children spread throughout the
west. Faye and I thought that it was probably taken at that time.
All of them are in mourning and I doubt that all of them would
have ever been together again.
Faye got the picture from Blanche Cullumber who was a daughter of
William, Thomas's son.
The following picture of Elizabeth
Lilly Cullumber Clover was in my mother's box of old pictures. She was the daughter of Thomas and married
Benjamin Clover.
Lilly
Bible
Lilly
Lilley
Allen, Nancy and Thomas Cullumber, the three oldest
children of John
Cullumber, married children of Armiger Lilley and Rebecca Hutchinson in
Madison County.
Armiger Lilley was the son of William Lilley and
Elizabeth Paulette.
William was the son of Edmund and Ann Lilley. Armiger was born in
Fluvanna County, Virginia. He appears to have used the spelling
Lilly and Lilley.
However, in the 1700s in Fluvanna County, there are a lot of records
spelled variously, especially Lilley.
Please note
that Gustav Anjou, who
was perhaps the most famous fraudulent genealogists in the United
States, wrote a fraudulent book on the Lilley family carrying the
family
back to France and then to Sweden. This is all fraudulent.
I have
been to the archives where the information would have been kept in
France.
It is
not there. I believe the Lilley family was from England and the
Paulette
family were French who were in the James River settlement in the 1600s.
Someone from Ohio
visited Blanche Cullember,
granddaughter of
Thomas Cullumber and left a typewritten copy of an Armiger Lilley
bible. Unfortunately, Blanche was not interested in genealogy and
just
threw letters and papers into a box under the bed. Later on Faye
Cullumber took these papers. They mostly had no dates or
information
as to who sent the paper. The Armiger Lilley Bible listed all of his
children and their dates of birth. It appears to have been from
an
Oklahoma DAR collection because the statement was made that the bible
was the property of Mrs C E Chamberlin, Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
However,
she has been contacted and has no Lilly/Lilley connections but she was
the
Registrar of the Oklahoma DAR for several years.
I have theorized the bible was originally in the
hands of the
Orohood Family. One of the Lilly children married an Orohood in
Ohio.
There are some additional Orohood records in the bible.
If you have any knowledge of the whereabouts of this
bible, please contact June Byrne.
Children
of Thomas F. Cullember and
Emily Susan Lilly
Endnotes:
(1) Tombstone personally read
and photographed by author, June Byrne.
(2) Thomas Cullumber entry, Franklin
County Death Book 3: 234, (1893) no. 1054, Probate Court, Columbus,
Ohio.
(3) Obituary, Thomas Collember,
Tuesday, 1 August 1893, London
(Ohio) Semi-Weekly Enterprise, page 3.
(4) Obituary, Thomas Collember,
Tuesday, 1 August 1893, London
(Ohio) Semi-Weekly Enterprise, page 3.
(5) Biographical
Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cowley County, Kansas, (Chicago:
Biographical Publishing Company, 1901), 310.
(6) Letter from Thos. F. Cullumber to
James Clover, dated 24 June 1871. Photocopy from Maxine Putnam.
(7) Tombstone personally read and
photographed by author, June
(8) E. S. Columber entry, Madison
County Deaths, Book 1: 36, no. 688, Probate Court, London, Ohio.
(9) Transcript of bible record came
from Blanche Cullumber’s effects. A copy was sent to me by Faye
Cullumber. I have not been able to locate the original of the
bible. Both of these people are now deceased.
(10) Franklin County Marriage Book 12:
546, Probate Court, Columbus, Ohio.
(11) Sarah Cullumber entry, Franklin
County Deaths Book 2: 302, (1889) no. 4047, Probate County, Columbus,
Ohio.
(12) History
of Madison County, Ohio, (Chicago: W.H. Beers and Co., 1883),
1151.
(13) Madison County Marriage book A:
464, probate court, London, Ohio.
(14) William Heflin entry, Madison
County Deaths, Book 1: 116, no. 697, Probate Court, London, Ohio.
(15) Franklin County Marriage
Book 20:305, Probate Court, Columbus, Ohio.
(16) Margaret Jane Cullumber death
certificate XXX-241143 (1926), Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.
(17) Civil War Pension File,
National Archives, Washington, DC, # 335248
(18) Letter from Thos. F. Cullumber to
James Clover, dated 24 June 1871. Photocopy from Maxine Putnam.
(19) Obituary, Thomas Collember,
Tuesday, 1 August 1893, London
(Ohio) Semi-Weekly Enterprise.
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