Biography

Bessie, daughter of Luther Lippy and Cecelia Virginia "Celia" Wine, was born 8 August 1905 in Carroll County, Maryland.^[1] In 1910 her family resided in Manchester, Carroll County, where her father Luther (age 34) supported his family by cultivating his own land. The household included himself, his wife Cecilia V. (33), Bessie Pauline (4), and her siblings Edgar Edward (11), Melvin Amandus (8), Annie Mabel (7), Paul Mervin (3) and Grace A. (2).^[2][3]

About 1918, the family moved to West Manheim Township, York County, Pennsylvania, where they were to be found in 1920. The household at that time consisted of Luther (43, farmer on rented land), Celia V. (43), Bessie Pauline (14), and her siblings Edgar Edward (21, farmer on the home farm), Melvin Amandus (19), Annie Mabel (16), Paul Mervin (13), Grace A. (12), Mary Helen (9), Elva M. (8), Naomi M. (5) and Malcolm L. (2).^[4]

On 21 February 1923 in York County, she married Ray Alvin Mummert,^{[5][citation needed]} son of Henry Mummert and Ellen Milheim. (Her husband's brother Wiley married her sister Anna Mabel.) Bessie and Roy had two children, including a living daughter and:

• Leroy Mummert (b. about 1928;^[5] d. before 1940).^[6]

By 1930 the couple had settled in Hanover, York County, where the family included Ray A. (age 30, twister in a rope mill), Bessie P. (24), a four-year-old daughter and Leroy (2).^[5] Leroy died before 1940, when the household in Hanover included only Ray (age 40, cordage mill foreman), Bessie P. (34, glove factory stitcher), and their fourteen-year-old daughter.^[6]

"She was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church and had been employed by Hanover Glove Manufacturing for 33 years before she retired in 1969."^[7]

Ray died in 1976.^[8] Bessie survived him almost two decades succumbing to death on 10 June 1995 in Hanover^[1] She was buried there at Rest Haven Cemetery.^{[9] [8] [7] [9] [1] [5] [6] [2] [3] [4]}

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} United States Social Security Death Index, database, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Bessie Mummert, 10 Jun 1995; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} United States Census, 1910, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 13 July 2019), Luther Lippy, Manchester, Carroll, Maryland, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 82, sheet 16A, family 259, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 562; FHL microfilm 1,374,575.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} United States Census, 1910, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 2 August 2019), Children in the Household of Luther Lippy, Manchester, Carroll, Maryland, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 82, sheet 12B, family 259, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 562; FHL microfilm 1,374,575.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} United States Census, 1920, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 13 July 2019), Luther Lippy, West Manheim, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing ED 110, sheet 10A, line 20, family 216, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1668; FHL microfilm 1,821,668.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} United States Census, 1930, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 13 July 2019), Household of Ray A Mummert, Hanover, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 29, sheet 10A, line 6, family 240, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2165; FHL microfilm 2,341,899.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} United States Census, 1940, database with images, FamilySearch (14 March 2018), Ray Mummert, Ward 3, Hanover, Hanover Borough, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 67-37, sheet 7B, line 73, family 170, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3642.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Obituary of Bessie P. Mummert published in the Gettysburg Times, Monday, 12 June 1995 (accessed 3 August 2019 at her Find-A-Grave memorial.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} United States Social Security Death Index, database, FamilySearch (19 May 2014), Ray Mummert, Jul 1976; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Find A Grave: Memorial #150116197 for Bessie P. Lippy Mummert buried at Rest Haven Cemetery in Hanover, York, Pennsylvania, United States of America (retrieved 11 July 2016). The memorial includes an obituary and an image of the headstone shared with her husband.

Acknowledgements

This profile was created, researched and initially written by Kathy Rabenstein.