Jesse

Jesse, born c. 1834, and an enslaved female, Mary, were given to Virginia A. Bower by her father, William Bower, shortly after her marriage to Francis Marion Humphreys in 1845. William Bower also gave enslaved men, women, and children to his other married children. F. M. Humpheys died in 1846 and his widow went to live with her father in Fauquier County. Jesse and Mary were then hired out to work for others. Mary had two sons, William Henry and George, and she died shortly after George’s birth. In 1852 Jesse was hired out to work for William T. Humphreys in Culpeper, Virginia. William J. Shumate married Virginia A. (Bower) Humphreys in 1852 and Jesse was brought to live at Montgomery Hall in January, 1853. William Henry, George, and Eliza Ann, an enslaved girl born c. 1837, were also brought to Montgomery Hall in January, 1853. George was sold to an unknown person in May or June, 1859. Jesse and William Henry were also sold in 1859.

William J. Shumate later moved to a farm in Fauquier County, Virginia and lived there until his death in 1883.