When Charlotte Stump was born on 4 May 1810, in Hardy, West Virginia, United States, her father, George Stump, was 32 and her mother, Catherine Jane Neff, was 24. She married Silas Dillion Phillips about 1829, in Fairfield, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Pulaski, Indian Creek Township, Pulaski, Indiana, United States in 1870. She died on 8 February 1878, in Pulaski, Indiana, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Medaryville, White Post Township, Pulaski, Indiana, United States.
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English and German: from Middle Low German stump ‘tree stump’ (borrowed into Middle English), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent tree stump, or else a nickname for a short, stocky person.
German: nickname from Middle High German stumpf ‘maimed, mentally incompetent’ for a dull or inexperienced person.
German (mainly northern and central): variant of Stumm .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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