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- NAME: Given name is actually Zacharias Kumpf. It is likely his became "Americanized" early, though, due to his name being listed as "Zachariah Kump" in the 1850 U.S. Census. Other name variations include both Zachariah and Zackariah. Both variations are utilized interchangeably in various records. FARM: Zachariah's cattle brand was a "ZK" placed on the left hip or thigh of the cow. This brand was originally registered 19 May 1870 at Motoni, Sanpete Co, Utah. The brand was regsitered at least through 27 Jun 1900. DEATH: Robert Kump records d. 20 Jun 1904 BURIAL: Robert Kump records bur. 23 Jun 1904
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History of Zachariah Kump, Sr.
Author: Zachariah Kump, Jr. Transcription & Some Corrections: Chad G. Nichols (2nd great grandson)
In writing this short history of my father, I Zachariah Kump, Jr., found part of it in the family bible. The most of it I remember from being with my father being what he was, so honest, upright and good I’m afraid I cannot do him justice but will do the best I can.
Zachariah Kump Sr. Son of David and Barbra Naylor was born in York Co. Pennsylvania July 3, 1830. In the year 1831 the family moved to Ohio and later to Wisconsin.
In the year 1851 when Zachariah was 21 years of age he crossed the plains to California and later moved to Utah where he lived the rest of his life.
When Zachariah first came to Moroni there wasn’t any thrashing machine in the entire country. They had no way to thrash their grain so in 1867 he went to California and brought the first thrashing machine to Moroni. On learning one thrashing machine could not possible do all the work the next year in 1868 he returned to California and brought out another one. We can hardly realize what a big help those machines were to those early settlers. When Zachariah first came to Moroni for a while he did freight between Moroni and Salt Lake City. The Indians were mean at that time and one night as he was returning home from Salt Lake City and was about 15 miles from Moroni his team being tired he decided he would camp for the night, Well he was cooking supper when a lone Indian road in to his camp, this Indian wouldn’t talk just looked things over and left, knowing the ways and habits of Indian He decided this Indian had been sent to see how many men their were in this camp. And as there was only one, That he would come back with some more Indians, and so Father decided to get out of there as quick as he could which he did. For in those days if a lone settler was caught out he was always killed. Zachariah had a good personality, was kind and good to every one and especially was he kind to his children and honest in all his dealings. I have never known a more honest man than my father Zachariah Kump Sr. And everybody that knew him lived him and had a good word for him. He did not have to much to say but what he did say you knew it was the absolute truth.
Zacharaiah Kump was married to Elizabeth Ann Cloward in Moroni on Jan. 1, 1870-Five children were born to them. Elizabeth Ann died in 1874 when Ann Kump was a baby. Then in 1874 he married Mary Catherine Cloward, 15 children were born to them. Being a prosperous man he took good care of these children furnishing them with a good home, good food and good clothing at all times.
Father was a very strong man, One day he and a neighbor was putting a culvert in a creek and they had to have another post, the neighbor said I was one over at my place that will do, they went over their it was about one eight of a mile and the neighbor said I will get one of my horses and we will let the horse pull it over it being a large post Zachariah looked at it and said I can pack it over. The neighbor said you can not do that, Why I can hardly lift the big end off the ground, Zacharaiah said help me get it on my shoulders and I will pack it over their and he did.
Shortly after Zachariah and Mary Catherine were married they decided to go to Oregon just to look at the country. And if the land and climate suited them they would make their home their. They didn’t like the climate, there was to much fog and rain to suit them, so they
returned to Moroni. One morning on the return trip Father couldn’t find his horses and he hunted for them for two days and then on the third morning a strange man road in to their camp, father told this man he had lost his horses and the man said I will tell what I will do you give me 125 dollars and I will find your horses. Well he knew this stranger knew where his horses were but their was nothing father could do about it, as he had to have his horses, so Zacharaiah said bring me my horses and I will give you the money. Well in just a few hours this man came in with the horses.
With the exception of this incident they had a very nice trip. When they returned to Moroni from Oregon they moved to Chester, Utah. Bought some land and built a nice home and lived there the rest of their lives. The cause of Zachariah death, he was making a swing on the porch for the children. Standing on a chair when he slipped and fell hurting his back he died June 30, 1904, in Chester, San Pete Co. Utah.
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History of Sanpete & Emery Counties
US/Can 979.25 H2h
Biographical Sketches, p563
Transcribed by Chad G. Nichols (2nd great grandson)
KKUMP, ZACHARIAH, farmer, son of David and Barbara, was born in York County, Pa., July 3, 1830. In ’31 the family removed to Ohio and later to Wisconsin. When Zachariah was 21 he went to California and engaged in mining and farming. In ’67 he came to Moroni, brining a threshing machine, and the next year he went back and hauled out another. He came to Chester in the spring of ’81 and now has a nice, well-improved forty-acre farm. Is a stockholder in the Moroni Co-op store, and a prominent man of Chester. Was married in Moroni January 1, 1870, to Elizabeth Cloward, who had three children: David, Edward and George, and died in Moroni. He was married again to Mary Catherine Cloward, by whom he has ten living children: Ellen, Susan, Eliza, Louesa, Zachariah, Lewis, Willis, Jacob, Loren, Edna and Katie, and one, Addie M., deceased.
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Zachariah Kump, Sr.
Written by Loren Kump (Son)
Transcription by Chad G. Nichols (2nd great grandson)
There are a few things that I remember about my father. I was only ten years old when he died so I can’t remember too much about him.
Once when I was about seven or eight years old, I was playing behind the house, and there was a can of milk that had clabbered. I was taking it out of the can and making balls of the clabber and throwing it in the scaffold holes in the brick walls. Pa came along and saw me, and he sure tanned my hide for me.
Once I remember seeing him come home from Moroni in the single buggy and horse, Willous and Jake, my two brothers, were fighting as he drove into the yard. He got out of the buggy and never said a word but got a stick and surely gave them a lashing. My father never said much but what he said he meant.
My father was one of the first to raise beets in Sanpete County. I remember when he used to top beets. I was too young to top them but I and my younger brothers would pull them out of the ground and throw them into little piles. Then the older brothers would top them. Pa would sit on a box and cut the tops with a butcher knife.
The last thing I remember about him was when Mother sent me to the store in Chester one day. I had to walk and carry a basket of eggs to buy groceries with. When I was about home one of my brothers came and told me that Pa had fallen off a ladder while making a swing for Edna and Katie. This is what caused his death.
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Zachariah Kump
Source: Jensen, J. Emil, The History of the Chester Ward 1870 - 1964, pp. 102-4
Authors: Zackariah Kump, Jr., and Edna Kump Olsen
Zachariah Kump was born the 3 of July 1830 at York County, Pennsylvania, the son of David and Barbara Kump. He grew up on the farm and his education was limited. In the year 1851 when Zachariah was 21 years of age he came across the plains to California. And in the year of 1867 he came to Moroni, Sanpete County, Utah.
There were not any threshing machines in the entire county of Sanpete. They had no way of threshing their grain. So in the same year he went back to California and brought the first threshing machine to Moroni. On learning that one machine could not possibly do all the work, he returned the next year, 1868, to California again and brought out another thresher. These machines were a big help to the early settlers.
When Zachariah first came to Moroni he did freighting between Moroni and Salt Lake City. The Indians were mean at that time and one night as he was returning home from Salt Lake City and was about fifteen miles from Moroni, his team became tired and he decided to camp for the night. While he was cooking supper, a lone Indian rode into his camp. This Indian wouldn’t talk, just looked things over and then left. Knowing the ways and habits of Indians, he decided this Indian had been sent to see how many men there were in this camp. Since there was only one, he feared that the Indian would come back with more Indians. He decided to get away as quickly as he could. In those days if a lone settler was caught he was sometimes robbed or killed by the Indians.
In the year of 1868 Zachariah married Elizabeth Ann Cloward, the daughter of James Mason Cloward and Mary Ann Baum. Elizabeth Ann died March 3, 1874. She was twenty years and eight months old when she married.
They lived in Moroni and had five children:
1. David Dwight
2. James Edward
3. George Arthur
4. Mary Barbara
5. Elizabeth Ann
Soon after the birth of the last child Mrs. Kump died and was buried in the Moroni Cemetery.
In the year 1875 Zachariah married Mary Catherine Cloward, born 23 May 1856 at Spanish Fork, Utah. She was the daughter of Jacob and Susannah Mendenhall Cloward, and the first cousin of his first wife.
Mary had very little education; she was the daughter of a farmer and had to work very hard in her youth. They became the parents of fifteen sons and daughters:
1. Mary Ellen-born 4 November 1875-married Levi Coats, son of Hulda and Nielson Coats.
2. Addie Mae-died when young
3. Susan-born about 1880-married Oscar Smith
4. Eliza Pearl-born 4 May 1881-married Jacob Nielsen, born 21 March 1871 son of Hans Nielsen and Annie L. Peterson of Chester.
5. Louisa-born 24 November 1882-married Joseph Marx of Moroni
6. Zachariah, Jr.-born 3 August 1884-married Sarah Reynolds, a sister of Isaac Reynolds, the father of Elmo Reynolds
7. Lewis Henry-born 2 February 1886-married Blanch Otterson
8. Willis-born 16 September 1887-died 1 August 1905
9. Jacob-born 21 April 1889
10. Parley-born 20 January 1891-married Hilda Sumsion, born about 1894, daughter of Henry Sumsion and Phebe E. Barlow. Parley died in 1964
11. Lorin-born 16 July 1893-married Edith
12. Edna-born 8 October 1895-married Ellis Olsen of Moroni
13. Katie-born 2 September 1897
14. Carlisle-born 24 September 1899-married Mary Amillia Biemhall
15. Dean Emerson-born 17 February 1902
Zachariah and Mary Catherine Kump lived in Moroni until the spring of 1881 when they moved to Chester. There they bought a farm and moved into a little log house. They lived there until Zachariah built a large two-story brick house for his family (this is the home now owned by Carl Anderson).
Being a prosperous man, he took good care of his family, furnished them with a good home, plenty of food and clothing at all times. He was a very strong man. One day he and a neighbor were putting a culvert in a creek and needing another post, the neighbor said he had one over in his yard. It was about one-eight of a mile away, so they went over to the neighbor’s to get it. The neighbor suggested he get a horse to pull the post over, but Zachariah said no, that if he would held him get it on his shoulder that he would carry it. And so it was done. He packed the big post and finished the work.
One day Zachariah met with an accident while putting up a swing for the children. He slipped and fell, injuring his hip and back which resulted in his death on 20 June 1904 at his home in Chester. He was 74 years of age. He was buried 23 June 1904 in Moroni.
Mary Catherine had the responsibility of raising 19 children. She was a very good mother and a friend to all. She had a nice horse and buggy and visited often with her friends and her married children. She worked very hard for her large family. Mary Catherine died the 25 of March 1915 a Chester of pleurisy. She was buried 29 March 1915 at Moroni beside her husband.
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1830 - 1904 (73 years)