Orillia (Bump) Moak (1806 - 1875)

Born 21 Nov 1806 in Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Washington Jackson — married 11 Jul 1822 (to 7 Oct 1828) in Dearborn, Indiana, United States

Descendants

Died 25 Dec 1875 at age 69 in Eddyville, Wapello, Iowa, USA

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Biography

No primary record documenting Orillia’s birth or parentage has yet been discovered. She is not listed in the Lynn Albert Bumpus' (LAB) Genealogy Database; see Ansel's Profile. There is no question the LAB entry is our family unit, but without Orillia mentioned.

Summarizing circumstantial information supporting Ansel Bump as father of Orillia Bump:

• The initial connection of Orillia to these parents, Ansel and Elizabeth, comes from family notes^[1], as does Orillia’s birthdate and birthplace in Saratoga, NY.
• Census records place Ansel and presumed spouse at what we think are the date and place of Orillia’s birth.
• Orillia Moak, through her second marriage, named the first child Ansel and a daughter Elizabeth.
• Brother Louis named a son Ansel.
• The Moak and Bump families lived near each other in OH.
• They migrated west at about the same time to the same location in Iowa.
• Orillia and Ansel are buried about 5km apart in Liberty Twp, Marion, IA.
• See DNA section for more evidence of a connection.

There is much less reason to believe Elizabeth Brouwer is Orillia’s mother. The LAB database specifies that Ansel’s wife was Elizabeth Brower, but it seems to get the birth date wrong (perhaps a marriage date). Unfortunately, the LAB genealogy cites no primary sources, and is known to have errors. It is simply a good starting point for research, but is by no means authoritative.

We assume Elizabeth married Ansel Bump, but there is no record of such a marriage. We assume she went from NY to OH with Ansel and family, but there is not a scrap of evidence known to us. Yet we have nothing else to go on, so we adopt Elizabeth into the family until such time as evidence supports her as a blood relative.

We have evidence the Bump family was still in Stillwater in 1816 when Orillia was ten, then to have migrated to the OH/IN border area along the Ohio River with her family beginning at age 12. When Orillia was 11, her suspected grandfather died, the man we circumstantially designate as Elizabeth's father, Hendrick Brouwer, and on whose leased farm the family was thought to have lived. Orillia's mother moving on at death of her father and loss of the farm in 1818 seems further corroboration of her parentage. It seems this family had very little wealth and subsisted by sharecropping.

Orillia married Washington Jackson in Dearborn, Indiana in 1822 (she would have been no older than 17),^[2] then divorced him six years later. Orillia had children by Washington Jackson; one is thought to be Margaret Jackson. In a letter from 1916^[3], 91 year old Margaret (Jackson) Hannon states she had two full brothers and a full sister in addition to the 8 Moak half-siblings from Orillia’s 2nd marriage.

There exists strong DNA evidence that Orillia's son George William Jackson was fathered by George Conner in Dearborn IN in 1829. Besides DNA evidence, there is a record showing George Conner had a daughter Orillia Conner, likely further affirmation of his relationship with Orillia (Bump) Jackson.

Official records do not exist to confirm Margaret's memory of siblings, and the family situation appears to have been fluid between 1828 and 1833, events that occurred before Margaret was five years old and about which she was likely never informed. Margaret likely was told, or simply inferred, that George William Jackson was her full brother.

Orillia married second Jacob Moak, b. 12 Dec 1810, Westmoreland, PA, d. 1897 Marshalltown, Marshall, IA . They had the following children:

• Ansel b. 1834 d. 1846
• John b. 1835
• Lorinda b. 1838
• Elizabeth b. 1843
• Amy
• Eunice
• Oliver Cromwell b. 1847 d. 1937
• Wilmer b. 1848

The Moak family, together with Ansel Bump, moved to Iowa in the 1850s. Orillia is buried in Marysville Cemetery, Marysville, Marion, IA.

Research Notes

As a naming coincidence, there is record in Saratoga NY of the granting of a letter of administration to Orelia Bump for the estate of her deceased husband William Black of Stillwater, 26 Jan 1801. Perhaps she was namesake of Orillia. We don't know which Bump line she was from. The name Orillia also was recorded in the Family Bible as daughter Etta’s middle name.

The surname Bump seems to have been shortened from Bumpus after the migration of family members from MA to NY. Ansel's LNAB at birth seems to have been Bumpus, but by the 1800 federal census, it had been shortened to Bump, which seems to have been Orillia's LNAB.

Her name is spelled Orillia on her grave marker, which seems to get the honor of the last word on the subject^[4]; that is the name we choose to know her by. Orillia is probably a phonetic corruption of Aurilla, a name used elsewhere in the Bump family; Orillia's brother Louis Bump named a daughter Aurilla. Or it could be a corruption of Orelia. Or a deliberate combination of the two.

The connection of this Orillia Bump as mother of William George Jackson is not backed by any known primary record - only the family notes^[5] are known to make the connection. But the other evidence is strong, both in family naming previously noted, and in family migration. Orillia's death is recorded in Eddyville, Wapello, IA, which is the general area where the Jackson-named children and grandchildren had also gone.

Sources

1. ↑ Jackson Family History
2. ↑ Chris McHenry, Marriages of Early Dearborn County, Indiana Residents Not Found in Marriage Records (Lawrenceburg, IN: the author, 1983) page 22
3. ↑ Copy of letter in possession of your researcher
4. ↑ See Monument Photo under images
5. ↑ Jackson Family History>

Acknowledgements

• Family researcher, profile originator, g-g-grandson Weldon Smith
• Family researcher, g-g-g-grandson Barry Smith, who, together with cousin LiAnn Carter, unravelled the family situation in the late 1820s via DNA and historical research.

Family History Notes/Remembrances

• • Two daughters of Martha Eliza “Hun” Jackson, Cora Ann Granville and Alta Granville, were early LDS researchers on this branch of the family tree, with most of the research said to be performed by Alta.
  • Orillia’s granddaughters’ research notes and the Jackson Family Bible were last reported to be in possession of George Arnold and descendants, the family of Cora Ann’s eldest daughter.
  • These records are said to be the source of Orillia's birthdate, birthplace, and parentage shown here, which data we received from Cora Ann’s granddaughter, Li Ann Carter. We do not know if these were from primary or secondary sources, but to date we have found this information nowhere else, so can hypothesize these are primary family sources.
  • Photocopies of the old Jackson Bible pages recording the life events of Orillia’s children and grandchildren are in possession of your researcher. In the Bible, the middle name of a granddaughter is spelled Orilia, a closer transliteration of the Bumpas family name Aurelia.

DNA

• Four of Orillia's children have been found to have a total of 19 present day descendants having taken auDNA tests at testing company 'A'. Daughter Margaret accounts for 11 cousins, daughter Elizabeth 5, son William two, and daughter Lodemia one. Orillia's descendants are identified showing her as the MRCA. She married first Jackson, then Moak. The descendants are thus in groups, she being the MRCA of the groups.
• The lineage from each descendant cousin back to Orillia is shown below.
• The 18 discovered matches to WS are his 3rd half cousins, 3rd cousins, and 3rd cousins 1x removed. (Another match was identified, but the segment size of the match was too large for Orillia to be the MRCA.)
• The most recent descendants in each lineage match WS on small segments; each match indicates, but falls short of proving, thatOrillia is the collective MRCA of the tested pairs.
• There appear likely to be at least nine shared segments greater than 10 cM.
• Considered as a collective, this preponderance of cumulative evidence is indicative of MRCA with high probability, but still requires identification of each matching segment to enable triangulation certainty.
• The bolded DNA test results, comparing WS DNA to that of the initialed cousin, have format: total # cM / # of matching segments.
• William George jackson
  • WS Base Match<-James Smith 1912<-Carrie May Jackson 1870<-William George Jackson 1830<-MRCA
  • MA 16/2<-Private<-Alice Smith 1915<-Roy Smith 1887<-Carrie May Jackson 1870<-William George Jackson 1830<-MRCA
• Margaret Jackson
  • CB 16/2<-Russell Burton 1926<-Mannie Hannon 1907<-George Hannan 1857<-Margaret Jackson 1827<-MRCA
  • DA 8/1<-Private<-Everett Powell 1906<-Lottie Mason 1880<-Martha Hannan 1859<-MargaretJackson 1827<-MRCA
  • LM 21/2<-Leonard Mason 1922<-Clel Mason 1898<-Martha Hannon 1859<-Margaret Jackson 1827<-MRCA
  • CM 16/1<-Private<-Regenia Hannan 1937<-Blanche Hannan 1897<-James Hannon 1854<-Margaret Jackson 1827<-MRCA
  • EH 20/3<-Edward Hannan 1900<-James Hannon 1854<-Margaret Jackson 1827<-MRCA
  • SW 60/6<-George Hobbs 1908<-Cora Granville 1882<-Martha Jackson 1863<-Margaret Jackson 1827<-MRCA
  • LC 41/4<-Martha Hobbs 1918<-Cora Granville 1882<-Martha Jackson 1863<-Margaret Jackson 1827<-MRCA
  • RB 37/3<-Daisy Munkres 1927<-Ernest Munkres 1897<-Daisy Kelsey 1873<-Florence Jackson 1859<-Margaret Jackson 1827<-MRCA
  • RO 30/4<-Norma Jackson 1925<-Arden Jackson 1903<-Louis Jackson 1882<-Walter Jackson 1857<-Margaret Jackson 1827<-MRCA
  • PA 10/1<-Private<-Wilbur Bartlett 1906<-Elsie Jackson 1886<-Walter Jackson 1857<-Margaret Jackson 1827<-MRCA
  • EH 20/3<-Edward Harrison 1900<-James Harrison 1854<-William Harrison 1826<-Margaret Jackson 1827<-MRCA
• Elizabeth Moak
  • DW 10/1<-Harold Samuel 1924<-Gwilym Samuel 1897<-Laura Covert 1877<-Elizabeth Moak 1846<-MRCA
  • YA 23/2<-Edward Ludders 1922<-Estella Moak 1884<-Jacob Moak 1877<-John Moak 1835<-MRCA
  • LC 7/1<-Harold Samuel 1924<-Gwilym Samuel 1897<-Laura Covert 1877<-Elizabeth Moak 1846<-MRCA
  • MC19/2<-Nellie Hittle 1915<-Mina Covert 1877<-Elizabeth Moak 1846<-MRCA
  • GZ15/2<-Nellie Hittle 1915<-Mina Covert 1877<-Elizabeth Moak 1846<-MRCA
• Lodemia Moak
  • WI 16/1<-A Cornelison<-Lois Tharp 1872<-Lodemia Moak 1837<-MRCA