Bumstead Family Reunion
The May 17, 2003 Bumstead Cemetery
cleanup and reunion was sponsored by the Mitchell family who has
so graciously maintained our family cemetery over the years.
The Cemetery is the resting place of our patriarch, Mourad
Bumstead, formerly of Long Island, New York and early settler
of the Mexican state of Tejas, veteran of the Siege of Bexar
and his wife, the former Jane Cravey of Florida, both founding citizens of the Republic of Texas. The Bumstead
Cemetery in Lumberton, Texas is
reserved for the burial of the descendants of Mourad Bumstead and
Jane Cravey Bumstead, his wife. Click on any of the thumbnail images
on the left to see pictures of some of the attendees.
(Note
that pictures 7 - 14 are from a book-signing in Beaumont,
Texas the same day by one of Mourad
and Jane's 3rd great grandsons, Brad Whittington,
who has written a book "Welcome
to Fred" and the pictures 15 - 17
were taken that evening at the home of Mark Wiess Whittington (deceased), 2nd
great grandson of Mourad and Jane Bumstead.)
Mourad Bumstead
(1811-1887)
Jane Cravey Bumstead
(1829-1912)