It’s Family Time~The George W. Rummage and Lydia G. Laton Family

Lydia G. Laton  was born about 1830, a daughter of John Laton, Sr. and  Catherine Dry. She was the 3rd of five children's born to John and Catherine. She had 3 brothers and one sister.

At age 26, Lydia married George W. Rummage on 27 November 1856 in Stanly County, North Carolina.

Their marriage was short lived with only one child born in this union. The advent of the Civil War was the major cause of this short union. George W. Rummage enlisted to serve in the Civil War with Company 'C', 42nd NC Infantry on Feb. 28, 1862 at Salisbury, North Carolina. Two years later, on 6 November 1864, he died of disease at Winder Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. His body lies without a tombstone in a numbered grave in Hollywood Cemetery.

Back home Lydia and her son, Robert F. Rummage is waiting for her husband and the father of her child to return from the war. At some point she must have received word that he had passed away. 

Sadly, Lydia G. (Laton) Rummage would also pass away just a few short years later in March 1869 leaving her son Robert F. Rummage, age 10 years and 11 months, an orphan.  Robert survived and died at age 57 on 7 September 1915 in Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina.

Lydia G. (Laton) Rummage is my 1st Cousin 4X Removed.

There is a lot of unanswered questions that period documents cannot provide after hundred and fifty plus years. If you are related and have information on this family I would love to hear from you.  

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1. 1860 U. S. Census, Stanly County, North Carolina, population schedule, Stanly, North Carolina, Page: 64; Line#05, Dwelling#906, Family#919, Household of George RUMMAGE; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 16 June 2023); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, Roll 914.

2. Ancestry, "Civil War Service Records" database, Military Service Records (https://www.fold3.com/ : accessed 16 June 2023), entry for George W. Rummage, Pvt.; Company 'C', 42nd NC Infantry; Confederate.

3. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 16 June 2023); Memorial page for George W Rummage; (1836–6 November 1864); Find a Grave memorial # 93516678, Citing Hollywood Cemetery; Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA.

4. "North Carolina, Marriages Record, 1741-2011," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 15 June 2023), Marriage: Lydia G Laton & George W Rummage, Marriage Date: 27 Nov 1856.

5. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database, "Record, Lydia G Rummage (1830–March 1869), Memorial # 102681955.