Cornelia F. Tefft
Parents
| Father | Samuel Tefft (1804 - 14 January 1891) |
| Mother | Julia Ann Brown (ca. 1806 - ) |
Personal Information
| Record Created: 16 April 2021; Last Edited: 4 February 2022 |
| Person ID | 11164 |
| Name | Cornelia F. Tefft |
| Gender | Female |
| Born | 6 January 1834 in Smyrna, Chenango County, New York1, 2, 3, 4 |
| Married | to Gilbert L. Crumb4 |
| Died | 9 December 18601, 4 |
| Buried | in Woodlawn Cemetery, Leslie, Ingham County, Michigan1 |
Biography
Cornelia and Gilbert’s marriage apparently broke down and culminated in Cornelia leaving the household in scandalous fashion, as told in an article in The Chenango American:5
Elopement.—The Wife of Mr. Gilbert Crumb, a respectable citizen residing on Mechanic Street in this Village, yesterday eloped—if this term may be applied to an open, defiant departure from her husband’s house and home, with Mr. Oliver Holcomb, who is the husband of an excellent and handsome wife. Their present whereabouts we have not learned.
Mrs. Crumb was about 23 years of age—and she leaves behind her an only child, a little boy five years old. Holcomb had been a border in the house of Crumb. Many persons will remember him for his feats in wrestling.
We passed Crumb’s house this morning, he was disposing of his furniture preparatory to breaking up house keeping and removing. He looked, what indeed he is a wo begone, wretched man, whose cup of bitterness and affliction was full--and unto whom comfort and happiness were to be, henceforth, strangers.
As Mr. Crumb was always a kind and indulgent husband, this exhibition of criminal infidelity on the part of the lady can be accounted for only through the hardiness of the times, which makes hard cases of many people—or through that spirit of mutability to which feminality whether in a state of singularity or connubiality, is proverbially subject. --Norwich Reporter.
Person/Family
| Spouse 1 |  Gilbert L. Crumb (son of John Crumb and Elmira Coats) |
| Born | March 1832 in Brookfield, Madison County, New York |
| Married | to Cornelia F. Tefft |
| Married | 21 April 1865 in Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan to Julia A. Brown (née _____) |
| Died | 1912 |
| Children | of Cornelia F. Tefft and Gilbert L. Crumb: |
| +1. | Elwin Tefft Crumb |
| Born | 19 July 1852 in Chenango County, New York |
| Married | 12 April 1872 in Mason, Ingham County, Michigan to Phebe A. Edwards |
| Died | 28 February 1926 in Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan |
| 2. | Flora Crumb |
| Born | 1854 |
| Died | 1855 |
Sources
- Find a Grave (website). Woodlawn Cemetery, Leslie, Ingham County, Michigan, Cornelia F. Crumb, born: unknown; died: 9 December 1860 (from record, which includes a note: Wife of G. L. Crumb, age 26y 11m 3d [so constructed birth date is 6 January 1834).
- U.S. Federal Census, 1850, New York, Chenango County, Sherburne, Image 39 of 63, Samuel Tiff, 46, RI, boatman; Julia Ann Tiff, 44, NY; Valentine Tiff, 24, NY, boatman; Flora Tiff, 18, NY; Cornelia Tiff, 16, NY; Lorenzo Tiff, 9, NY; Nathan Tiff, 6, NY.
- New York State Census, 1855, Chenango County, Sherburne, Image 17 of 50, Gilbert Crumb, 23, Chenango [sic, he was born in Madison County based on other records], farmer; wife Cornelia Crumb, 21, Chenango; son Elwen Crumb, 3, Chenango.
- Fisk, Clara Crumb, The Crumb Genealogy, Sarasota, Florida, 1956 (available at //www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G001491.pdf). Appendix, Unplaced Crumb Descendants, Gilbert Crumb, m1. Cornelia Tefft; m2. Julia Brown. The entries provide vital details and the names of Gilbert’s parents, siblings, children, and some grandchild. [Note: the birth and death dates for this John Crumb are erroneous; he actually died in 1865 in Michigan (per Findagrave, in Mount Green Cemetery, Jackson, Michigan). Another John Crumb (whose wife was Hulda Parsons) was the one who died on 18 July (actually in 1887, not 1889). That John Crumb and his family lived in Little Valley, Catteraugus County, New York, and can be found in several census records there.]
- The Chenango American, Greene, New York, 22 January 1857, Elopement. Details of the elopement of the wife of Gilbert Crumb [i.e., Cornelia (nee Tefft) Crumb) and Oliver Holcomb on 21 January 1857.