Bumstead Family Reunion -- May 17, 2003

Genealogical Data on Mourad Bumstead & Jane Cravey:

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• surname index
•  -  photo of Mourad Bumstead (1811-1887) & wife Jane O'Cravey (1829-1912)
•  - close-up of Mourad.

Articles:

• A History of Jefferson County, Texas: Mexico and the Anglo-American Pioneers;  By W.T. Block
• Jefferson County's Role During the Texas Revolution; by W.T. Block
• A History of the William Carlton Adamson Family; By Mrs. Jo Evelyn Phillips ... (about Elsie Ealer Bumstead Adamson)

Documents / Papers / Diaries:

• Mourad Bumstead's Republic of Texas claims for service in the Texas Revolution
• Mourad Bumstead's land grants in Texas
• The diary of Jeremiah Bumstead (1722)
• The diary of Jeremiah Bumstead (1723)
• The diary of Jeremiah Bumstead (1724)

Papers by Arthur Irving Bumstead of Saratoga Springs, New York and letters to his second cousin, Jessie Wiess Whittington who lived in Port Arthur, Texas until just before her death.

• Arthur's genealogy back to Capt. Robert Treat and Jasper Crane (1906). ....  (133 k jpg)
• Arthur's Bumstead Family Record (written 1911). ....  (133 k jpg)
• 1908 postcard. ....  (84 k jpg)
• 1938 letter. ....  (47 k jpg)
• 1939 letter. ....  (56 k jpg)
• 1942 letter. ....  (36 k jpg)
   
• 1949 letter in 6 pages:
  • page 1 ....  (92 k) and page 2 .... (91 k) are the body;
  • page 3 ....  (40 k) has pictures of him and his wife and their home;
  • page 4 ....  (64 k) and page 5 .... (81 k) are campaign leaflets for his election;
  • page 6 ....  (476 k) is the frontispiece from an engineering magazine showing his son as an editor.
• 1951 letter. ....  (79 k jpg)
• Arthur I. Bumstead's obituary. .... (198 k jpg)