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- Information from Amanda Arbogast Forbes research, copy in file.
Dates of birth, marriage, death and names of parents from a family bible kept
by Emanuel or his children. Marriage also recorded in Pendleton Co., VA/WV.
Also see, Leaves From The Gum Tree, by Muriel Martens Hoffman, 1984, pp.
425-429. Jane is the daughter of Isaac. Isaac Gum is the son of John Gum,
grandson of John Gum and great grandson of Roger Gum of Delaware. Roger Gum
( -1796) is the first recorded Gum in America. Jane's mother is Jane (or
June) Erwin (Ervin, Ervine), second wife of Isaac Gum. His first wife was
Martha Jane Mc Bride in Rockingham Co., VA, in 1779. Isaac married Jane Erwin
on 24 Nov 1796, in Bath Co., VA. Jane (Gum) Arbogast is named in her father's
will, which was proved on 7 Apr 1830, Pendleton Co., VA, Will Book IV, p. 129.
Jane (Gum) Arbogast is a sister to John Ervin, Charles and Isaac Gum, Jr.
There were also children from Isaac's first marriage to Martha Jane Mc Bride.
They are, Mary Gum, who married Jacob Sybert; Jacob; Abraham, who married
Elizabeth Sybert; and Mc Bride Gum, who died before his father leaving minor
children.
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