The Cumings Family of Tidioute, Pennsylvania

Captain Henry Harrison Cumings, son of Charles and Emily (Amsden) Cumings, was born in Monmouth, Illinois, December 1, 1840.

He passed his youth in the middle west. He attended the schools of Madison, Ohio, teaching to help himself along, and at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, where he graduated with degree of A. M. in 1862. On the eve of graduation he enlisted in the Union army, serving until 1865 with the 105th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; he was recruiting officer for this regiment. On the day of commencement of his class he stood in line of battle near Lexington, Kentucky, but though absent, was graduated with his class, receiving his diploma at his home on his return from war. Three months after enlisting he was detached from his regiment and assigned to duty as first lieutenant of Parson’s Battery, which was practically destroyed at the battle of Perrysville; fifty per cent of the members of the battery on the field were killed and wounded. Lieutenant Cumings was then assigned to duty on the staff of Colonel A. S. Hall, commanding brigade, and later was assigned to duty on the staff of Brigadier General E. H. Hobson. Returning to his regiment March 1, 1863, he participated in every campaign, skirmish and battle in which it was engaged—Louisville, Perrysville, Milton, Hoover’s Gap, Tullahoma, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Tunnel Hill, Buzzard’s Roost, Resaca, Burnt Hickory, Lost Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, near Atlanta; Jonesboro, and also was with Sherman in his March to the Sea. He was promoted to a captaincy after the battle of Missionary Ridge, and was assigned to Company K, of the 105th Ohio Volunteers. He remained with his command until it was mustered out in Washington, D. C., June 3, 1865. He was breveted major about the time Lincoln was assassinated, but as he had no active service under that title, refused to acknowledge it.

He settled in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, immediately after the close of the civil war, and has remained there until the present time. Prior to the war he taught school. After the war he entered the business of oil production, and had a small refinery in Tidioute, which he disposed of about 1871, remaining in the oil production business. He has served the town in various offices, being burgess during the time of the great smallpox epidemic there in the early 70’s. He has been director and president of the school board from 1880 till 1913, and still has the position. He has held many county and state offices, the last being state senator from his district. He served on the committee or board of directors for the Scotland School for Soldiers’ Orphans, and on the board for the Soldiers’ Home at Erie, Pennsylvania. He has been faithful and conscientious in upholding only what was for the best interests of his townspeople and constituents in every position he has held. Captain Cumings has been prominently identified with the Republican party. He was delegate to the Republican convention held in Chicago in 1888. He was a member of the state senate of Pennsylvania, 1899, to and including 1903, re-elected 1903, to and including 1906. He has been urged since then to permit his name for this office and others, but feels he is entirely out of politics now, and has earned the rest. He was prominent in the organization of the Grand Army of the Republic, has been several times commander, as well as filling other offices of the Col. George A. Cobham Post, G. A. R. He has served on the staff of state officers in the G. A. R., and in the Northwestern Association, Department of Pennsylvania, G. A. R., as commander, and in 1895-1896 was department commander of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the Republic. He has also been an officer on the staff of the commander-in-chief of the national organization of the Grand Army of the Republic at various times. He is a member of Olivet Commandery, Knights Templar, Erie, Pennsylvania.

He is president of the Tidioute Savings Bank; a director of the Warren Trust Company of Warren, Pennsylvania; president of the Missouri Lumbering and Mining Company, and has large business interests in Grandin, Missouri, and Clarks, Louisiana. He is interested in the oil development in Oklahoma, and in the gas production in Quebec, Canada, besides business interests in many smaller concerns.

Captain Henry H. Cumings is a lineal descendant from many of the Puritan settlers in Massachusetts, through Isaac Cumings, who settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1627, and his descendants who have intermarried with children and descendants of other early settlers of those days in Massachusetts. His ancestral line through his father—i. e., the Cumings, follows.

(I) Isaac Cumings

Isaac Cumings, born 1601, died 1677; four or more children.

(II) John Cumings

John Cumings, born 1633, died December 1, 1700; married (first) Sarah, daughter of Ensign Thomas and Alice (French) Hewlett. In court John Cumings testified to being forty years old in 1673, and in 1679 again testified, giving his age as fifty years, and again in 1696 as being sixty-three years of age; he had eleven children.

(III) John Cumings

John Cumings, born 1657, married, September 13, 1680, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Brackett) Kinsley; they had eight children, of whom

(IV) Samuel Cumings

Samuel Cumings, born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, October 6, 1684, died in Groton, Massachusetts, 1718. He married, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, before Edward Emerson, justice, January 14, 1708, Elizabeth Shed, of Groton, Massachusetts. They had three children. His widow married a second time.

(V) Samuel Cumings

Samuel Cumings, born in Groton, Massachusetts, March 6, 1709, died in Hollis, New Hampshire, January 18, 1772. He married, in Groton, Massachusetts, January 30, 1732, Prudence, daughter of Thomas and Prudence Lawrence, of Groton, Massachusetts, born September 14, 1715, died March 6, 1797; six children. (See pp. 21-27, Groton Hist. Series, Book X, vol. I, S. A. Green; also Cumings Genealogy, A. O. Cummins, p. 44.)

(VI) Benjamin Cumings (Lieutenant)

Benjamin Cumings (Lieutenant), born in Hollis, New Hampshire, November 25, 1757, died March 8, 1804, in Brookline, New Hampshire, where he then lived. His name appears on the muster roll of Captain Reuben Dow’s company of minute-men at the Lexington alarm, and Bunker Hill, who marched from Hollis, New Hampshire, April 19th, 1775. He was one of fifty-three men who remained at Cambridge and who volunteered for eight months in a new company under Captain Reuben Dow. This company was mustered into the Massachusetts regiment commanded by Colonel William Prescott. History of Hollis, New Hampshire, page 164, states, “Benjamin Cumings enlisted for one year in either the 6th Company of the First Regiment, or the First Company of the Third Regiment, New Hampshire Continental Line, and served in the battles and operations about New York, and at Princeton and Trenton, New Jersey.” The History of Hollis, pp. 203-204-205-206: Rolls of the New Hampshire Continental Line, First and Third Regiments—among the names of the Hollis men shows Benjamin Cumings serving in the Lexington campaign, 1775; Cambridge campaign, eight months, 1775; Continental army, one year. Lieutenant Benjamin Cumings married (first) December 7, 1780, Bridget, daughter of William Poole, a revolutionary soldier, and his wife, Hannah (Nichols) Poole. Bridget Poole, born August 5, 1762, died March 3, 1785. William Poole was a private under Captain John Goss in 1776, and participated in the capture of Ticonderoga. He was born in 1726 in Reading, Massachusetts, died in Hollis, New Hampshire, October 27, 1795; married, June 19, 1751, Hannah Nichols. They had fourteen children.

(VII) Benjamin Cumings Jr.

Benjamin Cumings Jr., born in Hollis, New Hampshire, August 24, 1781, died in Unionville, Ohio, September 11, 1852. He was known as Major Benjamin Cumings, obtaining the title in service in the war of 1812. He married, in Brookline, New Hampshire, March 6, 1805, Lucy Whitaker, born in Mason, New Hampshire, May 22, 1782, daughter of John and Thankful (Pierce) Whitaker, of Brookline, New Hampshire; she died in Madison, Ohio, June 4, 1861; (both buried in Middle Ridge Cemetery, Madison, Ohio). John Whitaker, a revolutionary soldier, born 1743-44, died October 1, 1829, was a member of Walker’s company, New Hampshire militia, which company is said to have been raised out of the Fifth Regiment Militia of the state of New Hampshire, by an order from Major General Folsom, December 7, 1776, to reinforce the Continental army at New York until March 1, 1777. (Record from the Pension Office, O. W. & N. Dep’t., Washington, D. C., and vol. XIV, Mass., pp. 438-527, Soldiers and Sailors.) Thankful Pierce, born June 5, 1744, died September 6, 1830, wife of John Whitaker, married, December 23, 1766, was a daughter of Stephen Pierce, of Groton, Massachusetts, and his wife, Rachel. Lucy Whitaker, wife of Benjamin Cumings Jr., was born in Mason, New Hampshire, May 22, 1782, died in Madison, Lake county, Ohio, June 4, 1861. They lie beside each other in the cemetery at Middle Ridge, Madison, Ohio.

(VIII) Charles Cumings

Charles Cumings, born in Brookline, New Hampshire, September 5, 1814, came from Hollis, New Hampshire, with his parents, to Unionville, Lake county, Ohio, in 1825. At the age of nineteen years, when residing in Unionville, Ohio, he was converted, becoming a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church. For several years he was a circuit rider in Illinois, residing with his first wife and two elder children in Monmouth, Illinois. Within a year after the death of his wife, Emily Amsden, he left this work through the persuasion of his relatives in Ohio and returned to them, where he later married his second wife, and settled on a farm in North Madison, Lake county, Ohio, becoming a local preacher at that place. About 1876 his eyesight failed so that he gave up preaching, but he was always active in the church work until the day of his death. He died in Madison, Ohio, October 4, 1900. He married first in Unionville, Ohio, March 29, 1838, Emily (VII) Amsden, born in Stowe, Vermont, June 17, 1816, daughter of Abraham Amsden, born in Sharon, Massachusetts, September 17, 1788, and his wife, Mehitable Currier, born 1787, died April 27, 1840, daughter of Peter Currier, of Stowe, Vermont, and in 1790 of Windsor, Vermont. Abraham (VI) Amsden, father of Emily (VII) Amsden, was born in Sharon, Massachusetts, September 17, 1788, died in Ashtabula, Ohio. He was a son of Abraham (V) Amsden, born February 20, 1752, died in Reading, Vermont, married, April 28, 1773, Submit Morse, born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, died in Ashtabula, Ohio.

Said Abraham (V) Amsden, born February 20, 1752, was a son of Abraham (IV) Amsden, born August 29, 1723, and Hannah Whitcomb, married, February 13, 1746. This Abraham (IV) Amsden was a son of Abraham (III) Amsden, born October 15, 1692, died in Marlboro, Massachusetts, March 7, 1763, aged 71 years; married, November 29, 1722, Hannah Newton, born 1698, died October 9, 1793, daughter of John Newton Jr., and wife, Hannah Morse, of Marlboro, Massachusetts. Abraham (III) Amsden, born 1692, was a son of Isaac (II) Amsden Jr., born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1655, a soldier in the Indian wars between 1680 and 1683, removed to Marlboro, Massachusetts, where he was known as Captain Amsden. He was a proprietor of the Ockoocangansett purchase in 1684, a town clerk for a few years, and selectman for fourteen years, and a justice of the peace until after 1717. He died in Marlboro, Massachusetts, May 3, 1727. His wife was Jane Rutter (or Butler), of Sudbury, married, at Cambridge, May 17, 1677; she died in Marlboro, Massachusetts, November 22, 1739, upward of 80 years of age; she left a very interesting will. Isaac Amsden Jr. (II) was a son of Isaac Amsden Sr. (I), the first recorded settler of the name in this country, who appears in Cambridge at the time of his marriage in 1654. He was born in England 1616 (?). He followed the trade of a mason in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he owned twelve acres of land at the time of his death, April 7, 1659. On June 3, 1654, he married Frances Perriman, who was admitted to the Cambridge church in October, 1661. The following November her two children were baptized. She died in June, 1693, aged about 72 years, according to her gravestone, making her birth about 1621, though Paige’s History of Cambridge states her birth about 1625.

Emily Amsden, wife of Charles Cumings, died in Monmouth, Illinois, August 14, 1851, leaving two children:

1. (Captain) Henry Harrison Cumings
2. Lucy Mehitable Cumings.

Charles Cumings married (second) September 2, 1852, Rebecca Agnes Sullivan, daughter of Patten and Mary (Buel) Sullivan, of Geneva, Ohio, born in Killingly, Connecticut. She died in Madison, Ohio, March 29, 1903.

(IX) Henry Harrison Cumings

Children of Charles Cumings:

1. Henry Harrison Cumings, born in Monmouth, Illinois, December 1, 1840, resides in Tidioute, Pennsylvania (the subject of this article).
2. Lucy Mehitable Cumings, born in Monmouth, Illinois, July 22, 1844; married, February 15, 1872, James H. Boyce, of Willoughby, Ohio; she died September 4, 1898, while visiting her parents in Madison, Ohio. James H. Boyce died in Willoughby, Ohio, March, 1909. They left one adopted daughter:
   1. Maude Boyce, who married Edward Mosher, and resides with their children in Wickliffe, Ohio.
3. Charles Elliott Cumings, born in Madison, Ohio, June 15, 1853; married, May 8, 1879, Sarah E. Burridge, daughter of Captain Eleazer and Margaret Burridge, of Mentor, Ohio. They reside in East Brady, Clarion county, Pennsylvania. They have two daughters:
   1. Margaret Rebecca Cumings, who married Charles Wallace, of East Brady, have one daughter:
      1. Margaret Wallace.
   2. Charlotte Sarah Cumings, who married, October, 1912, Frank Hilderbrand, of Butler, Pennsylvania.
4. Francis Asbury Cumings, born in Madison, Ohio, June 10, 1855, married (first) October 6, 1880, Mary Rood, of Madison, Ohio; she died in Madison, Ohio, March 6, 1896. He married (second) July 7, 1897, Winnifred E. Rand, daughter of his cousin, Elmer H. Rand (a granddaughter of Lucy (Cumings) and Martin Rand, born in Mason, New Hampshire). His children are:
   1. Walter Cumings, born in Criswell, Butler county, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1881, married, and resides in Madison, Ohio.
   2. Bessie Agnes Cumings, born in Criswell, Pennsylvania, May 2, 1888, graduated from Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; resides in Madison, Ohio, a librarian in Cleveland, Ohio.
5. Jane Rebecca Cumings, born in Madison, Ohio, February 1, 1857; married, May 8, 1884, Howard A. Atkinson, of Willoughby, Ohio, where they resided until his death, June 12, 1904, after which Mrs. Atkinson removed with her family to Cleveland, Ohio. Children:
   1. Arland Gary Atkinson, born in Willoughby, Ohio, February 9, 1885, married, and resides in Cleveland, Ohio
   2. Ralph Howard Atkinson, born in Willoughby, Ohio, December 2, 1886
   3. William Charles Atkinson, born in Willoughby, Ohio, October 8, 1888, died there January 10, 1892
   4. Raymond Cumings Atkinson, born October 30, 1895.

   The two unmarried sons reside with their mother.

6. Benjamin Potter Cumings, born in Madison, Ohio, June 30, 1860, died there September 22, 1861.
7. Homer Potter Cumings, born in Madison, Ohio, February 19, 1862; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, New York, class 1885. He was retained there as an instructor in the college. He later engaged in the business of civil engineer in Painesville, Ohio, and became city engineer. He has been very successful. August 13, 1891, he married Jennie Hills, of Willoughby, Ohio. Children:
   1. Mildred Josephine Cumings, graduated from school in Painesville, Ohio, in 1910; she was born February 8, 1893.
   2. Homer Harold Cumings, born August 13, 1895.
8. Emily Estelle Cumings, born in Madison, Ohio, January 21, 1864; is unmarried; she is a deaconess in the Methodist Episcopal church.
9. Mary Maria Cumings, born in Madison, Ohio, September 8, 1866; graduated from Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, class of 1889. She taught Latin and Greek languages for eleven years in Ottawa, Illinois, when she accepted a similar position in Painesville, Ohio, that she might be nearer her mother during her remaining years. She still retains that position, and resides unmarried in Painesville, Ohio (1913).
10. Nellie Lavinia Cumings, born in Madison, Ohio, March 2, 1869; attended Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio, 1888-89; married, August 15, 1894, Allen N. Benjamin, of Madison, Ohio, where they reside; two children, living in Madison, Ohio:
    1. Mary Frances Benjamin, September 8, 1897
    2. Allen N. Benjamin Jr., born August, 1906.
11. Kate Cumings, born in Madison, Ohio, January 18, 1872; educated in the schools in Madison, and Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio; married, July 25, 1900, Orlando Pershing, of Madison, Ohio, pastor of the Presbyterian church, Pueblo, Colorado, where they reside; one child:
    1. Charles Pershing, born in Ada, Ohio, 1909.
12. Edgar Roscoe Cumings, born in Madison, Ohio, February 20, 1874; graduate of Union College, Schenectady, New York, receiving degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. He was an instructor and did post-graduate work at both Cornell College, Ithaca, New York, and Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut. Yale College conferred upon him the degree of Ph.D. He is professor of geology in the Indiana State University, Bloomington, Indiana, where he resides. He married, in Oak Lane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June, 1907, a sister of his nephew’s wife, Lois Crowthers, daughter of Henry H. Crowthers, of Philadelphia; two children:
    1. Edith Cumings, born November, 1908
    2. Edgar Roscoe Cumings, born 1910.

The Sink Line

Charlotte Jane Sink, wife of Captain Henry Harrison Cumings, was born in Rome, Oneida county, New York, April 25, 1846. She is a lineal descendant from the Earl of Stafford, of Warwickshire, England; from John Billings and Sir Thomas Billings, of Rowell and Northampton, England, through eight generations to the emigrant to America, William Billings; from Sir Thomas Bromley, of Staffordshire, England, through his son, Luke Bromley, and his grandson, Luke Bromley, of Stonington, Connecticut. Thomas Stafford, son of the Earl of Stafford, born in Warwickshire, England, was in Plymouth Colony, 1626, later of Providence and Warwick, Rhode Island; his wife was Elizabeth. Their daughter:

1. Hannah Stafford, who died before 1692, married Luke Bromley Jr., born 1665, died 1697.

Mrs. Cumings is also a lineal descendant of the noted Willis family of Connecticut. Thus: William Bromley (son of Luke Jr. and Hannah Bromley), born 1668, died 1700, married Lydia Billings, daughter of William Billings and wife Mary, of Stonington, Connecticut, baptized 1672. She died 1747. William Billings came from Taunton, England, appearing in Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1658; he died in 1713. Son of William and Lydia (Billings) Bromley:

1. William Bromley, baptized at Preston (now Griswold), Connecticut, October 21, 1694, married Judith ——, and resided in Preston, Connecticut. He died January 7, 1769, and Judith Bromley, his wife, died September 28, 1776. Their daughter:
   1. Bathsheba Bromley, born in Preston, Connecticut, February 12, 1733, married William Willis, of New Haven, March 25, 1750. William Willis, born January 9, 1725, died October 9, 1774. Their daughter:
      1. Welthy Willis, born September 18, 1772, died in Cleveland, New York, June 23, 1854, married, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, January, 1790, James Carroll, who was born in the North of Ireland, 1763, emigrated to America, 1780. He died July 16, 1830. He and his wife are buried in the John Davis Cemetery, Cleveland, New York. Their daughter:
         1. Camilla Carroll, born December 3, 1798, in Lenox, Massachusetts, died in Rome, New York, December 28, 1877, married, October 19, 1816, Jacob Sink, of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Their son:
            1. Andrew Jackson Sink, born at Fort Schuyler, near Utica, New York, June 14, 1823, died in Rome, New York, February 15, 1880, married, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 4, 1840, Sarah Catherine Rue, of Lockport, New York. Their daughter:
               1. Charlotte Jane Sink, wife of Captain Henry H. Cumings.

On her mother’s side of the family, Mrs. Cumings is a lineal descendant of Richard Higgins, of Plymouth, and one of the first proprietors of Eastham, Massachusetts, and his second wife, Mary Yates. They removed to New Jersey in 1670. Also a lineal descendant of Richard Stout, who married the famous Penelope Van Princess, in 1624, and also of Matthew Rue, of Staten Island, an early settler; and of George Mount, an early settler and prominent man in New Jersey. Her lines trace through as follows:

The Higgins Line

(I) Richard Higgins

Richard Higgins married second wife, Mary Yates, in October, 1651; their son:

1. Jedediah (Jediah) Higgins

(II) Jedediah (Jediah) Higgins

Jedediah (Jediah) Higgins, of Hunterdon county, New Jersey, married, April, 1715, Mary Newbold, 1684; their son:

1. Jedediah (Jediah) Higgins Jr.

(III) Jedediah (Jediah) Higgins Jr.

Jedediah (Jediah) Higgins Jr., married Hannah Stout; their son:

1. Joshua Higgins

(IV) Joshua Higgins

Joshua Higgins, born 1732, died 1804, married, 1755, Mary Quick, born 1726, died 1813; their son:

1. Peter Higgins

(V) Peter Higgins

Peter Higgins, married Elizabeth; their daughter:

1. Charlotte Higgins

(VI) Charlotte Higgins

Charlotte Higgins, married, 1816, Matthew Matthias Rue; their daughter:

1. Sarah Catharine Rue

(VII) Sarah Catharine Rue

Sarah Catharine Rue, married, 1840, Andrew Jackson Sink.

Richard Stout was a son of John Stout, of Nottinghamshire, England, born there 1584, married, in New York, 1624, Penelope Van Princess, born in Amsterdam, Holland, 1602. Mrs. Cumings’ lines:

The Stout Line

(I) Richard Stout

Richard Stout, born 1584, married, 1624, Penelope Van Princess.

(II) Jonathan Stout

Jonathan Stout, married Ann ——.

(III) Hannah Stout

Hannah Stout, married Jedediah Higgins; see generation III in above Higgins line.

Mrs. Cumings’ line from Matthew Rue, of Staten Island:

(I) Matthew Rue

Matthew Rue came to Middlesex county and Hopewell, New Jersey, from Staten Island about 1702. He died in New Jersey, 1722. His son:

1. John Rue

(II) John Rue

John Rue, married Peternella Wyckoff, of Staten Island, removed to New Jersey about the time his father came there; their son:

1. Matthew Rue

(III) Matthew Rue

Matthew Rue, died November, 1755; married (second) Margaret (Mount), widow of Rev. James Herbert (or Harbour), of Middletown, New Jersey, October 11, 1749. Matthew Rue was scalped by the Indians in November, 1755. (After his death, Margaret, his widow, married a third husband in 1760—the Rev. James Dey, of Monmouth county, New Jersey). Their son:

1. John Rue

(IV) John Rue

John Rue, born 1754, married, January 1, 1777, Anne, daughter of Captain and Judge Jonathan Combs, of Cranbury, New Jersey; their son:

1. Matthew Matthias Rue

(V) Matthew Matthias Rue

Matthew Matthias Rue, born in New Jersey, February 24, 1782, died 1828; removed to Lockport, New York. In 1816 he married as his third wife Charlotte Higgins, of New Jersey; their daughter:

1. Sarah Catharine Rue

(VI) Sarah Catharine Rue

Sarah Catharine Rue, married, 1840, Andrew Jackson Sink.

Mrs. Cumings’ line from George Mount is:

(I) George Mount

George Mount, born in Scotland, died 1705, in New Jersey; he was a state deputy in New Jersey in 1698, and of his time a very prominent man in all state affairs and offices, serving in the assembly; married Catharine.

(II) Matthias Mount

Matthias Mount, his son, born in New Jersey, died 1695; married Mary; their son:

1. Matthias Mount

(III) Matthias Mount

Matthias Mount, born about 1692; married; his son:

1. Matthias Mount

(IV) Matthias Mount

Matthias Mount, born 1716, died 1791; was an elder in the Presbyterian church; married Anne; his daughter:

1. Margaret Mount

(V) Margaret Mount

Margaret Mount, married (first) March 24, 1739, Rev. James Herbert (or Harbour); (second) October 11, 1749, Matthew Rue; (third) November 24, 1760, Rev. James Dey.

(VI) John Rue

John Rue (see above), born 1754, married, January 1, 1777, Anne Combs, born 1751, died 1789, daughter of Captain and Judge Jonathan Combs, of Middlesex county, New Jersey. Captain Jonathan Combs was in commission as captain in the Third Regiment, Middlesex county, New Jersey, militia, during the revolutionary war (see records on file in office of Adjutant General of New Jersey; also, Stryker’s “Officers and Men in the Revolutionary War.”)

See now generation IV in the Rue line just preceding this; here the lines come together and follow:

(VII) Matthew Matthias Rue

Matthew Matthias Rue, son of John Rue, born 1782, married his third wife, Charlotte Higgins, in 1816. They resided in Lockport, New York. Matthew M. Rue died there November, 1828, and Charlotte (Higgins) Rue died there April 14, 1827. Their daughter:

1. Sarah Catharine Rue

(VIII) Sarah Catharine Rue

Sarah Catharine Rue, born in Lockport, New York, March 11, 1823, married, March 4, 1840, Andrew Jackson Sink, born at Fort Schuyler, near Utica, New York, June 14, 1823. Mrs. Sink died in Adams, New York, June 3, 1881; buried beside Mr. Sink in the family plot in the cemetery at Rome, New York. Mr. Sink died February 15, 1880. Mr. Sink was engaged in the hotel business, owning hotels in Rome, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Toledo, Ohio; Titusville and Triumph, Pennsylvania; Adams, New York; and other places. He was an attendant of the Protestant Episcopal church of Rome, New York; and a Democrat in politics. Their children:

1. Charles Melvin Sink, born June 14, 1841, died December 24, 1841; born and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2. George Henry Sink, born in Rome, New York, November 4, 1842, died there January 21, 1875; married in Rochester, New York, May 30, 1870, Rose Cassidy, born in Rome, New York, November 24, 1851; their children, born in Rome, New York:
   1. Harriet Charlotte Sink, born August 9, 1871, died in Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 1897, married, June 6, 1894, Albert Thomas Trott.
   2. Sarah Catharine Sink, born October 4, 1872, married (first) William H. Gers, April 26, 1897, divorced November 2, 1901, married (second) Philip J. Gorman, November 24, 1902, divorced December 14, 1912, one son:
      1. George Clarke Gorman, born in Chicago, Illinois, January 8, 1904.
   3. Georgiana Helen Sink, born January 11, 1875, died March 7, 1904; married (first) Frank Louis Hopkins, February 26, 1894; he died September 8, 1899. She married (second) July 12, 1900, Charles E. Lyon. Two children, residing in Chicago, 5748 West Ontario street:
      1. Frank Harold Hopkins, born December 25, 1894, born in Chicago, Illinois.
      2. George Howard Hopkins, born November 26, 1898, born in Chicago, Illinois.
3. Charlotte Jane Sink, subject of this sketch, was born in Rome, New York, April 25, 1846; married in Brooklyn, New York, April 17, 1867, by the Rev. George T. Thrall, Captain Henry Harrison Cumings, of Tidioute, Warren county, Pennsylvania. They were married at the home of Mrs. Cumings’ cousin, Fanny (Higgins), wife of Joseph Judson.

   Mrs. Cumings attended the schools of Rome, New York; Chicago, Illinois; and Notre Dame, in South Bend, Indiana. Mrs. Cumings is a member of the Woman’s Relief Corps, having held the positions of president of the Col. George A. Cobham Woman’s Relief Corps, and other offices; also has held state offices in that organization, as well as having been the president of the State Department of Pennsylvania, Woman’s Relief Corps, 1893 and 1894. She has also held the office of national aide of the Woman’s Relief Corps, and other similar offices in the national organization of the Woman’s Relief Corps. In this work she was a member of the “Andersonville Prison” Board when it was being restored and was given to the government of the United States. She organized the Tidioute Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and was its regent for eleven years, when she resigned to accept the regency of the Pennsylvania State Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, where she has successfully served two terms, and has received the nomination for a third term. Mrs. Cumings is also a member of the following local clubs in her neighborhood: The Shakespeare Club, the Mendelssohn, and the Eastern Star, in each of which she was a charter member; she is also a member of the Philomel, of Warren, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Cumings and family are members of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church of Tidioute. Their nine children:

   1. Harriet Emily Cumings, born January 9, 1868; educated in the Tidioute public schools; the class of 1890, of Oberlin College; and Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio. She married, in Mayville, New York, August 27, 1888, Theodore Horatio Ellis, born in Oberlin, Ohio, February 20, 1867, son of the Rev. Professor John Millot Ellis, born in Nashua, New Hampshire, March 29, 1831, and his wife, Minerva Emeline (Tenney), born in North Amherst, Ohio, September 19, 1837, she a daughter of Luman Tenney, M. D., born in Orwell, Vermont, April 3, 1809, and his wife, Emeline Charity (Harris), born in Becket, Massachusetts, October 9, 1809. They resided for three years in Grandin, Missouri; ten years in Tiona, Pennsylvania; two and a half years in Reading, Pennsylvania; and since 1904 in Baltimore, Maryland. While residing in Tiona, Pennsylvania, and also in Reading, Pennsylvania, Mrs. Ellis kept up her interests in the clubs of her old home in Tidioute. She assisted her mother in organizing the Tidioute Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and was its treasurer in 1902-03; she was a member of the Shakespeare Club and the Twentieth Century Club of Tidioute, Pennsylvania; also of the Woman’s Relief Corps, Col. George A. Cobham Corps, being its president in 1893. She filled different offices of that corps while residing in that place; also, Mrs. Ellis held several state offices, being installing and instituting officer, National Woman’s Relief Corps, and the first patriotic instructor. It was due to her efforts that the Flag Salute was first introduced into all the schools of the state. Mrs. Ellis wrote a personal letter to every teacher in the state asking them to use the Salute daily in their schoolrooms. The county and state superintendents furnished Mrs. Ellis with a list of names of every teacher, with their addresses. In this organization Mrs. Ellis served as national aide for three years, and in other offices, such as flagbearer and guard at the national conventions at Indianapolis and Pittsburgh. Mrs. Ellis is interested in the Mothers’ Club of Baltimore, the Woman’s Club of Forest Park in Baltimore, and was the organizer of the Mordecai Gist Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and is a member of Federated Women’s Clubs of Maryland. She also takes an active interest in philanthropic and civic work in Baltimore; and last but not least, does a great deal of historical and genealogical research work, endeavoring to have old and ancient manuscript state records printed and bound and placed where the people of the state will be able to consult them and have a better knowledge of their state history.

      Mr. Ellis is a large stockholder and manager of the United States Asphalt and Refining Company, in Baltimore, as his main business, but has an interest in several other business enterprises. He is a member of De Molay Commandery, Knights Templar, Reading, Pennsylvania, and Rajah Temple of the Mystic Shrine, of the same place. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., of Clarendon, Pennsylvania, and Modern Woodmen of America. In Baltimore he is a member of the Maryland Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and of the Crescent Club and Baltimore Yacht Club. Mr. Ellis and family attend the Associate Congregational Church. Their children:

      1. Bernard Tenney Ellis, born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, May 29, 1889; graduated with the class of 1908, Baltimore City College, and was in Johns Hopkins University, class of 1912. He is a small stockholder and interested in the U. S. A. R. business with his father. He is a member and chief petty officer of the Maryland Naval Brigade. He is also a member of the Masonic organization; he is unmarried, and resides with his parents.
      2. Charlotte Cumings Ellis, born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1895; educated in the public schools of Baltimore; graduated in class of 1913, Baltimore Eastern High School, vice-president of her class; member of the Baltimore Art Institute.
      3. Minerva Tenney Ellis, born in Tiona, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1901; two years in public schools of Baltimore, and a member of the Girls’ Latin School, in Baltimore; member of the Baltimore Art Institute.
   2. Charles Andrew Cumings, born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1869; early education in the public school of Tidioute, then at Pennsylvania State College. He settled first in Butler, Pennsylvania, on an oil lease, remaining there for several years. While there he became a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard. He enlisted in the Cuban war, and for the war in the Philippines, where he served as first lieutenant for three years. He voluntarily resigned his commission in 1901. Next he became a government gauger, with headquarters in Pittsburgh and in Meadville, Pennsylvania, where he continued for several years. After resigning from this work he removed to Syracuse, New York, for several years, and finally settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he is in business. He married, in Ridgewood, New Jersey, November 14, 1901, Helen Ada Crowthers, daughter of Henry H. Crowthers, formerly of Ridgewood, but now of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They have one daughter:
      1. Margaret Shippen Cumings, born April 26, 1908, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
   3. Henry Harrison Cumings Jr., born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, August 24, 1871; attended and graduated from the public schools of Tidioute; attended Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, one year, and then had three years at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania. After leaving college he entered business with his brother-in-law, Theodore H. Ellis, refining oil at Tiona, Warren county, Pennsylvania.

      They continued this business until the spring of 1901, at which time they sold out and opened an oil business in Reading, Pennsylvania. The following winter Mr. Cumings was called to Rome, New York, to look after family business there, taking charge of the Stanwix Hall, one of the hotels owned by his grandfather, Andrew J. Sink, leaving Mr. Ellis to look after the oil business in Reading. Finding the hotel business congenial, Mr. Cumings has remained in Rome, New York, in this business. In Erie, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1896, Henry Harrison Cumings Jr. married, at the home of her mother, Mrs. Garetta (Hatch) Pierce, Hertha Garetta Pierce. They have two sons, both born in Tiona, Pennsylvania:

      1. Henry Harrison Cumings (3d), born June 20, 1897
      2. Pierce Amsden Cumings, born March 5, 1900
   4. Sarah Charlotte Cumings, born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, April 15, 1875, died there September 10, 1875.
   5. Ralph Hunter Cumings, born in East Brady, Pennsylvania, December 11, 1876; educated in the public schools of Tidioute, Pennsylvania; prepared for college in Kiskiminetas Springs School, of Indiana, Pennsylvania, and of the class of 1898 at Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut. Just before graduation he enlisted for the Cuban war, with the Yale Battery. While the company was held in camp he was acting quartermaster. After the close of the Cuban war he was in the hospital in New Haven for several months. When well, he returned home and engaged in business in Marietta, Ohio. A few years later he sold out his business, returning to Tidioute, and went in with the Union Razor Company, and was their secretary. In 1910 he sold out this business, removing to Baltimore, Maryland, where he formed a company and went into the manufacture of roofing. He married, in East Orange, New Jersey, September 5, 1906, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Woodruff, Elizabeth Harriet Benjamin, of New York City. They had one son:
      1. An unnamed son, born April 27, 1908; he died the same night.
   6. Laura Frances Cumings, born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, August 27, 1879; educated in the public schools of Tidioute, Pennsylvania, graduated class of 1896; entered Lake Erie College, in Painesville, Ohio, for one year. She married, in the Presbyterian church, of Tidioute, Pennsylvania, by the Rev. Dr. Garrett, of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, June 15, 1904, Arthur Burr White, of Riverside, California, formerly of Boston, Massachusetts. They resided in Riverside, California, then Corona, California, where Mr. White was the city engineer and civil engineer. When his term of office expired Mr. White removed to Los Angeles, California, where he engaged in the civil engineering business for himself. They own several ranches in California, at Lancaster, Ontario and Corona. Their children:
      1. Muriel Burr White, born in Riverside, California, April 13, 1905, died there February 28, 1906
      2. Henry Cumings White, born in Corona, California, November 28, 1906
      3. Laurence Adams White, born in Los Angeles, California, December 6, 1909
      4. baby daughter White, born in Los Angeles, California, November 17, 1911, died there November 18, 1911.
   7. Baby daughter Cumings, born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1883, died there February 16, 1883.
   8. Benjamin Rue Cumings, born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, October 4, 1887, died there December 13, 1890.
   9. Abigail Lynch Cumings, born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, November 17, 1893; attended the public schools of Tidioute, also Westlake School for Girls, Los Angeles, California, and later Miss Marshall’s School, Oak Lane, Philadelphia, where she graduated with high honors in the class of 1912. Miss Cumings has been endowed with a beautiful voice and is a great addition to the clubs of which she is a member in her home town. She has traveled extensively with her parents, and resides with them, except when studying music and perfecting her voice with the best teachers in Philadelphia.
4. Willard Stockton Sink, the fourth child of Andrew J. Sink and wife, Sarah Catharine Rue, born in Stanwix, New York, June 2, 1852; married, at Rome, New York, October 17, 1877, Sarah A. (Hook) Strong, widow of Giles Strong, who died June 22, 1875; she was born January 28, 1855, a daughter of John and Rebecca Hook. Their children:
   1. Blanche Emily Sink, born in Rome, New York, August 28, 1879, died there July 6, 1891.
   2. Charlotte Frances Sink, born in Rome, New York, November 11, 1883; married, in Toronto, Canada, August 13, 1902, Wilford Meeker St. Auburn; their children:
      1. Wilford Meeker St. Auburn Jr., born in Wellington, Ohio, April 26, 1903;
      2. Ernestine Meeker St. Auburn, born in Rome, New York, April 29, 1905;
      3. Marian Meeker St. Auburn, born in Rome, New York, June 25, 1906;
      4. Raymond Meeker St. Auburn, born in Yorkville, New York, May 2, 1911.
   3. Helen La Rue Sink, born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, July 10, 1885; married, in Oneida, New York, July 10, 1903, Harry B. West; their children, born in Rome, New York:
      1. Harold Bela West, born November 28, 1904
      2. Ben Rue West, born March 23, 1906, died there August 4, 1906
      3. Stewart West, born July 2, 1909
      4. Dorothy West, born February 1, 1911
      5. Marjory West, born July 8, 1912.
   4. Willard Stockton Sink Jr., born in Rome, New York, May 17, 1890, died there September 24, 1890.
   5. Willard Henry Sink, born in Rome, New York, September 26, 1891; married, in Utica, New York, April 11, 1912, Miss Grace E. Snyder.
   6. Harold Hook Sink, born in Rome, New York, February 24, 1896.
5. Harriet Camilla Sink, born in Chicago, Illinois, March 15, 1856; married (first) in Rome, New York, November 11, 1875, Theron La Fora Holley, born 1841, died in Rome, New York, February 16, 1899. Mrs. Holley married (second) in New York City, October 24, 1904, Carl William Klapproth, born in Germany. They reside in New York City. One daughter:
   1. Blanche Emily Holley, born in Rome, New York, September 10, 1876, resides in New York City, with her mother.

See: Genealogy of the Allegheny Valley Pennsylvania

Source

Jordan, J. W. 1840-1921. (1913). Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co.

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