White County Store
Mumford, Greene Co., Missouri
A Small Town Family
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Mumford was a small town outside of Springfield, five and one-half miles from the Springfield Public Square. Mumford no long exist, but there are small reminders that there once was a town there. The church is still there and for many years there has been what is called "Homecoming", it use to be call "Children's Day", held there. But it too is slowing going the way of the town, fewer and fewer of the original residents are left to attend the annual Homecoming. |
| My great grandfather Siegel F. Hilderbrand (1862-1926) moved with his mother Martha Ann Pepper Hilderbrand (1838-1886) and two brothers to Mumford, after the death of his father in Dallas Co., Missouri. They moved to Mumford about 1880, Siegel was living with his brother James Nash Hilderbrand in 1880. Siegel F. Hilderbrand married Eliza Jane Kelly around 1885. Eliza Jane Kelly was the daughter of John Kelly and Mary A. Humble. The Humbles had lived in the area since moving there in 1851 from Smith Co., TN. To the union of Siegel and Eliza Jane were born 5 children, 2 boys and 3 girls. Eliza Jane died in 1901 and Siegel continued to live in Mumford and raise his children. Siegel died in 1926 and him and Eliza Jane are both buried in Turner Cemetery. |
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The children married while still living in Mumford and started
raising families of their own. My grandmother Lela Ann Hildebrand
married William Sherman Stevenson. His family moved to Mumford from
Shannon Co. Missouri after the death of his father Walter Monroe Stevenson
around 1895. His mother Sarah Ann Teague Stevenson married Asa Roy.
The Stevenson family were originally from Todd Co., Kentucky, moving
to Missouri around 1860. Six children were born to William and Lela Ann while they lived in Mumford. Their seventh, my mother, was born after they moved to Springfield in 1926. |
| William Benjamin Hilderbrand, the eldest child of Siegel and
Eliza Jane, married Mary Jenjin and they had three boys. Uncle Will and his
family moved to Kansas. Clara Bell Hilderbrand married Steve Brayfield
and they had one son. After the death of Steve Brayfield, Aunt
Clara married Steve Butter, they had no children. She then married
Walter Gowers and they had five children, three boys and two girls. Florence "Aunt Toast" Hilderbrand married Tom Owens, to their union were born five children, three girls and two boys. Their last child was John Sherman Hilderbrand, he married Beulah Owens, sister to Tom Owens. John and Beulah had one daughter and then divorced. John married his second wife Clarice L. Henson and they had no children. John died in 1934 and Clarice married Roy Beatie of Rogersville. |
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Mt. Pisgah School Class of 1924
The pictures are courtesy of my Aunt Pearl, Aunt Allene and my mother Dorothy.
