Huldah Pierce Warren (Bump) Newell (1849 - 1878)

Huldah Pierce Warren Bump was born June 2, 1849 in in Middleborough, Massachusetts, United States. She was a daughter of Huldah Pierce Warren and James Sullivan Bump.

• younger sister of Lavinia Warren Stratton, who married "General Tom Thumb"

• "descendant of a French Catholic family named Bonpasse, of Governor Thomas Mayhew, and five Mayflower passengers: John Billington, Francis Cooke, Edward Doty, Stephen Hopkins, and Richard Warren — New England families which intermarried many times over."^[1]

• had a form of proportionate dwarfism^[1]

• performed as a singer with P.T. Barnum^[2]

• m Edmund Newell, also a dwarf and performer with P.T. Barnum^[2]

• died from complications of childbirth^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Wikipedia: Lavinia Warren, accessed 10 Oct 2016
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Wikipedia: Minnie Warren, accessed 10 Oct 2016

"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4V1-4G8 : 10 November 2020), James S Bump in entry for Huldah P Bump, Sep 1848; citing Birth, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009807.

"Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N72X-GHB : 14 December 2022), James S. in entry for Huldah P. Newell, 1878.