Last updated: November 21, 2022
Person
Irvin Brumfield
Nona L. Edwards-Thomas
Quick Facts
Significance:
Mississippi Homesteader
Place of Birth:
Mississippi
Date of Birth:
1846
Place of Death:
Pike County, Mississippi
Date of Death:
1900
Place of Burial:
Magnolia, Pike County, Mississippi
Irvin (Ervine) Brumfield was born in 1846 in Mississippi. Irvin along with his parents Liddie Brumfield Caston (1825-1916 Mississippi) and Louis Brumfield (birth and death date unknown) were enslaved in Mississippi. No information concerning what happen to Louis Brumfield is known at this time. Liddie and Louis Brumfield had four sons: Irvin, Tom, Richard and Frank Brumfield. The siblings were identified by interviewing their descendants and family members DNA analysis. Liddie Brumfield latter married Calvin Caston.
Irvin Brumfield, at 24 years old, filed application #4290 on September 1, 1870. He applied for 80 acres of land in Pike County, Mississippi at the Land Office in Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi for a fee of seven dollars. During the following seven years on the homestead settlement, he made improvements to the land by cultivating 30 acres and building a house, corn crib, and stables. There is no value of the improvements stated in the homestead documents.
On the Final Proof document dated August 21, 1877, Henry Conerly and Calvin Caston, Irvin Brumfield’s step-father, were his sworn witnesses. They verified that Irvin Brumfield (name listed Ervine Brumfield) was on the land beginning September 1, 1870. He was the head of a family which consisted of a wife and 4 children whose names are not given on the document. On August 30, 1877 he summitted a balance fee of two dollars for the homestead.
In the 1881 personal property tax roll, he owned two horses and two carriages valued at sixty and forty dollars respectively. Irvin Brumfield satisfied the requirements for the homestead patent. He received his homestead certificate # 938 on June 30, 1881.
Louisa Brumfield in 1935.
Photo Credit: Nona L. Edwards-Thomas
Irvin and Louisa Brumfield married in 1873 had ten children Martha Ann, Sherman, William, Irvin Jr., Louis, George, Isom, Daisy, Mamie and Mattie. His children Martha Ann. Sherman, Irvin Jr., Louis, George and Isom attended school in the Holmesville election district in 1885 and 1890. He lived on the settlement with his family until his death in 1900 in Pike County, Mississippi. Louisa Brumfield and children continued to live on the homestead until her death on July 20, 1935. Irvin and Louisa are buried in the Caston Cemetery an old cemetery about fifty feet off the road at 4022 Old 24 Extension Road Magnolia, Pike County, Mississippi.
On the patent his name is recorded as Ervine Brumfield. Ervine Brumfield is known as Irvin Brumfield. Irvin Brumfield was enumerated in the United States Federal 1880 Pike County, Mississippi census as Louis Brumfield with wife Louisa and five known children Martha Ann, Sherman, Irvin Jr., William and Louis. In the Pike County, Mississippi 1881 tax roll and the United States 1900 Pike County, Mississippi census he is enumerated as Irvin Brumfield.
Patent Details - BLM GLO Records
~ Contributed by Nona L. Edwards-Thomas
More about the contributor: Nona L. Edwards-Thomas is the great-granddaughter of Irvin Brumfield. As a family historian, she has been involved in genealogy research for over 30 years. Through the years, she has attended many genealogy conferences, archives, libraries and have memberships in the National Genealogical Society and the Tennessee Genealogical Society. Her initial genealogical investigation was the black African American Brumfield family of Pike County, Mississippi. From this research, it has guided research to other branches of the Brumfield family tree and neighboring trees. No family lives in isolation having friends and neighbors whose lives intertwine together which shape family history. She has a blog “Brumfield Genealogy and Other Branches and Trees” since 2012. She is also an administrator of Pike County, Mississippi Genealogy & Heritage Facebook group.
Nona L. Edwards-Thomas MD is a retired board-certified physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology and a Fellow in the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She attended Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois receiving a Bachelor of Biology degree. Her medical education was at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and residency Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois now known as the John Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.