Mary Eliza (Walker) Crump (1857 - 1928)

Born 1857 in Tennessee, United States

Wife of Thomas Crump — married 22 Jan 1880 in Davidson, Tennessee, United States

Died 6 Aug 1928 at about age 71 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

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Biography

Eliza (Walker) Crump is Notable.

Mary Eliza Walker was an African-American contralto singer and manager, one of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers.^[1][2]

Mary Eliza Walker was born into slavery in Tennessee 1857. She is quoted in an 1873 publication:

"I was born six miles from Nashville at Flatrock in 1857. My mother belonged to Wesley Greenfield and my father to John W. Walker of Nashville^[3]. There were eight children, — two boys and six girls. I was next to the youngest. My mistress held only two or three slaves besides our family. She finally set my mother free and gave her the three youngest children. After the war my father kept an ice-house and made money enough to buy us a little home; but there was some trouble about the lease, and we lost the house. In 1866 I commenced attending Fisk School, and continued there as much of the time as I was able till 1870," ^[4].

She married fellow Jubilee Singer Thomas H Crump in 1880^[5]. They are enumerated in the 1880 Census in the household of Granville Crump (her father-in-law) at Grainger, Tennessee ^[6]. In 1900 they were living in the South Town precinct of Chicago ^[7]. She passed away in 1928.

Research Notes

Possible match 1870 US Census ^[8]

• Eugene Walker age 64 Blacksmith Virginia
• Charlotte Walker age 50 Kentucky
• Eliza Walker age 18 Tennessee

Slave Owner

Wesley Greenfield 1860 US Slave Schedule ^[9] Other People on This Record

• UNKNOWN Sex Male Age 39
• UNKNOWN Sex Male Age 34
• UNKNOWN Sex Male Age 18
• UNKNOWN Sex Male Age 14
• UNKNOWN Sex Male Age 14
• UNKNOWN Sex Male Age 14
• UNKNOWN Sex Female Age 10
• UNKNOWN Sex Male Age 8
• UNKNOWN Sex Female Age 6
• UNKNOWN Sex Female Age 2

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Eliza_Walker_Crump
2. ↑ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Fisk_Jubilee_Singers
3. ↑ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WKTK-F13Z : 16 October 2019), John W Walker, 1860.
4. ↑ Pike, Gustavus D. The Jubilee Singers, and their Campaign for Twenty Thousand Dollars. 1873. https://archive.org/details/singers00pike/page/n67/mode/1up?q=Eliza+Walker+Fisk+Jubilee
5. ↑ "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ7R-X6B : 10 March 2021), Thomas H Crump and Mary E Walker, 22 Jan 1880; citing Davidson, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. 150, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 200,297.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDW2-9ZJ : 15 January 2022), Mary E. Crump in household of Granvill Crump, District 4, Grainger, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm
   • Granvill Crump Self Male 50 Tennessee, United States
   • Catherine Crump Wife Female 40 Tennessee, United States
   • ...ble Crump Son Male 21 Tennessee, United States
   • Lafayett Crump Son Male 11 Tennessee, United States
   • Nettie Crump Daughter Female 9 Tennessee, United States
   • E. Junie Crump Daughter Female 1 Tennessee, United States
   • Thos. H. Crump Son Male 24 Tennessee, United States
   • Mary E. Crump Daughter-in-law Female 20 Tennessee, United States
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSSP-XFS : 12 January 2022), Mary E Crump in entry for Thomas Crump, 1900.
   • Thomas Crump Head Male 39 Tennessee
   • Mary E Crump Wife Female 34 Tennessee
   • Thomas Meritt Cousin Male 37 Tennessee
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD8G-JFZ : 29 May 2021), Eliza Walker in entry for Eugene Walker, 1870.
9. ↑ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WKTK-LV6Z : 16 October 2019), Wessley Greenfield, 1860.