When George Umphenour was born on 21 April 1804, in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Johann Thomas Umbenhauer, was 42 and his mother, Anna Margaret Hartsanger, was 44. He married Anna Maria Umbenhauer on 8 June 1822, in Frederick, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Pontiac Township, Livingston, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Ogden, Champaign, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 24 November 1887, in Vermillion Township, LaSalle, Illinois, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Stearns Cemetery, Muncie, Vermilion, Illinois, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Historical Boundaries: 1814: Edwards, Illinois Territory, United States 1818: Edwards, Illinois, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1826: Vermilion, Illinois, United States
Probably an altered form of German Umbehauer, from the adjective unbehauen ‘unhewn’, a nickname for a boorish, ill-mannered person.
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