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The Rumbley Family of Burnt Corn
THOMAS AARON RUMBLEY Thomas Aaron Rumbley (1838-1928) married Alabama Crook (1849-1931) on December 21st, 1870, at the home of her father, William B. Crook. They were the parents of ten children. For most of their married lives, they lived in the house of Major Crook, who left the house to this daughter of his second wife, Martha Marshall Agee Crook. Thomas A. Rumbley was the son of Richard Henry Rumbley (1799-1895) and his wife, Mary McMillan Rumbley (1808-1861). R.H. Rumbley was the son of Maryland native John Rumbley and his wife, Jane Austin Rumbley who came to Monroe County in the early 1800s. Thomas Rumbley served in the Confederate army and was in a number of fierce battles. When the war ended, Lt. Rumbley walked from North Carolina to his Alabama home. Tom Rumbley was a farmer and the highly respected surveyor of Monroe County for many years. His obituary mentions his impeccable honesty. He was an elder in the Burnt Corn Presbyterian Church, which was located in Puryearville. His children remembered him as a loving father, but capable of administering stern punishment if they strayed from the straight and narrow. His wife was a tiny woman, a talented musician, and possessed of a kind and sweet disposition that endeared her, to all who knew her of both black and white races. Thomas and Alabama Rumbley are buried in the Puryearville Cemetery beside the graves of her parents, William B. and Martha Crook.
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