From the Robert Gum family history published in the Pocahontas County History.
Robert was one of seven sons of Jacob (Jr.) and Martha (Houchin) Gum. "Uncle Robbie" was born near Greenbank, Va. on July 18, 1841. Price's History of Pocahontas states he was a brave Confederate Soldier in the famous 31st Virginia Infantry, and that because of his coolness and self possession under fire he was frequently selected for ambulance service on the field.
After the ware he lived with his brother William and family until his marriage in 1867 to Barbara Ann Riley, daughter of John Riley and Elizabeth Tressel. The made their home in the Hartoman-Bruffey house near the North Fork mill and it was there that all their children were born. He was the miller after Uriah Hevener, Sr., purchased and rebuilt the mill, about 1880 .....
Staunton Spectator November 20, 1877
? Grandfather Jacob Gum ?
Old Documents—We have before us four old documents, the latest of which is eighty-one years old and the oldest one hundred and twenty-one years. One is a grant of 160 acres in the county of Augusta, on the head spring of Linville's Mill Creek, for the consideration of twenty shillings, to JACOB GUM by Robert Dinwiddie, "our trusted and well beloved Lieutenant Governor." It is dated August 16th, 1756.
Company G, 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment
Born at Greenbank, Pocahontas County, Virginia. (Now W. Va.)
Robert was one of seven sons of Jacob (Jr.) and Martha (Houchin) Gum. "Uncle Robbie" was born near Greenbank, Va. on July 18, 1841. Price's History of Pocahontas states he was a brave Confederate Soldier in the famous 31st Virginia Infantry, and that because of his coolness and self possession under fire he was frequently selected for ambulance service on the field.
After the ware he lived with his brother William and family until his marriage in 1867 to Barbara Ann Riley, daughter of John Riley and Elizabeth Tressel. The made their home in the Hartoman-Bruffey house near the North Fork mill and it was there that all their children were born. He was the miller after Uriah Hevener, Sr., purchased and rebuilt the mill, about 1880 .....
Staunton Spectator November 20, 1877
? Grandfather Jacob Gum ?
Old Documents—We have before us four old documents, the latest of which is eighty-one years old and the oldest one hundred and twenty-one years. One is a grant of 160 acres in the county of Augusta, on the head spring of Linville's Mill Creek, for the consideration of twenty shillings, to JACOB GUM by Robert Dinwiddie, "our trusted and well beloved Lieutenant Governor." It is dated August 16th, 1756.
Company G, 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment
Born at Greenbank, Pocahontas County, Virginia. (Now W. Va.)
From the Robert Gum family history published in the Pocahontas County History.
Robert was one of seven sons of Jacob (Jr.) and Martha (Houchin) Gum. "Uncle Robbie" was born near Greenbank, Va. on July 18, 1841. Price's History of Pocahontas states he was a brave Confederate Soldier in the famous 31st Virginia Infantry, and that because of his coolness and self possession under fire he was frequently selected for ambulance service on the field.
After the ware he lived with his brother William and family until his marriage in 1867 to Barbara Ann Riley, daughter of John Riley and Elizabeth Tressel. The made their home in the Hartoman-Bruffey house near the North Fork mill and it was there that all their children were born. He was the miller after Uriah Hevener, Sr., purchased and rebuilt the mill, about 1880 .....
Staunton Spectator November 20, 1877
? Grandfather Jacob Gum ?
Old Documents—We have before us four old documents, the latest of which is eighty-one years old and the oldest one hundred and twenty-one years. One is a grant of 160 acres in the county of Augusta, on the head spring of Linville's Mill Creek, for the consideration of twenty shillings, to JACOB GUM by Robert Dinwiddie, "our trusted and well beloved Lieutenant Governor." It is dated August 16th, 1756.
Company G, 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment
Born at Greenbank, Pocahontas County, Virginia. (Now W. Va.)
Robert was one of seven sons of Jacob (Jr.) and Martha (Houchin) Gum. "Uncle Robbie" was born near Greenbank, Va. on July 18, 1841. Price's History of Pocahontas states he was a brave Confederate Soldier in the famous 31st Virginia Infantry, and that because of his coolness and self possession under fire he was frequently selected for ambulance service on the field.
After the ware he lived with his brother William and family until his marriage in 1867 to Barbara Ann Riley, daughter of John Riley and Elizabeth Tressel. The made their home in the Hartoman-Bruffey house near the North Fork mill and it was there that all their children were born. He was the miller after Uriah Hevener, Sr., purchased and rebuilt the mill, about 1880 .....
Staunton Spectator November 20, 1877
? Grandfather Jacob Gum ?
Old Documents—We have before us four old documents, the latest of which is eighty-one years old and the oldest one hundred and twenty-one years. One is a grant of 160 acres in the county of Augusta, on the head spring of Linville's Mill Creek, for the consideration of twenty shillings, to JACOB GUM by Robert Dinwiddie, "our trusted and well beloved Lieutenant Governor." It is dated August 16th, 1756.
Company G, 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment
Born at Greenbank, Pocahontas County, Virginia. (Now W. Va.)
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