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The earliest Umstead for which reliable records have been found is Joel Umstead, who was born around 1783 in Pennsylvania. By 1850 Joel was a miller in Middlesex Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania. He married Nancy Huntzburger, who was born around 1780 in Pennsylvania. The last known record of them is the 1860 U. S. census, which means they died after June 5, 1860.
Their son Jacob H. Umstead was born in Frederick, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania on October 18, 1809. He worked as a shoemaker in the borough of Harmony, Butler County, Pennsylvania. His first spouse, whose name is not known, died sometime around 1844. They had at least four children: Isaac Henry, Moses, Jacob, and Levi. In 1846 Jacob married Barbara Herstine, and they had at least seven children: Alfred, Joel, Barbara, Susan, Nancy, Elmer, and Annetta. By 1880 Jacob was working as a laborer and living in South Oil City, Venango County, Pennsylvania. He died on January 24, 1894, and was buried in Grove Hill Cemetery in Oil City.
Isaac Henry Umstead was born in Harmony on March 3, 1836. Isaac worked as a shoemaker in Harmony prior to being enlisted there as a Sergeant in Company C of the 134th Pennsylvania Regiment on August 7, 1862. At the time of his enlistment, Isaac was described as five feet eight and a half inches tall with a fair complexion, blue (or gray) eyes, and dark hair. Because of the threat of the Confederate army that was marching towards Washington, Isaac’s regiment left on August 20, 1862, for the capitol, where the organization of the regiment was completed. Once organized, the regiment camped near Antietam until the end of October. (The regiment was not organized in time to participate in the Battle of Antietam.) In September, while camping at Antietam, Isaac suffered a hemorrhaging of the lungs but does not appear to have been hospitalized.
The first (and only) major battle that Isaac participated in with the 134th regiment was the battle of Fredericksburg. As part of the Fifth Corps serving in Tyler’s brigade of Humphreys’ division, Isaac’s regiment was on the right of the front line that led the Army of the Potomac’s final charge towards the stone wall that had become the focal point of the battle. In the battle Isaac was “struck by a piece of shell in [his] right side above the hip, near the spine.” He was treated in camp and then sent to Fort Schuyler in New York, where he was treated for two months before receiving a disability discharge on February 26, 1863. The official reason for his discharge, however, was listed as “chronic diarrhea.”
Despite his physical struggles and his participation in one of the Union’s worst losses of the war, Isaac re-enlisted in the 5th Heavy Artillery Regiment of Pennsylvania as a private for a one-year term of service on September 8, 1864, enlisting in Pittsburgh. The U. S. Pension Office records that his role with the 5th Heavy Artillery Regiment was as a “musician.” Shortly after he re-enlisted, the regiment went to Washington and performed its duties in forts north of the city.
On September 28, 1864, the regiment was posted along the line of the Manassas Gap railroad, which became a supply line for Sheridan’s army in the Shenandoah Valley. In this service, the regiment was engaged in battles around Rectortown and Salem from October 5 to October 8 before returning to Washington for a few days and then back to Virginia where it spent the winter in detachments at Prospect Hill, Vienna, and Fairfax Court House. During this time the regiment performed picket and guard duty and also built large stockades and block-houses. In June the regiment returned to Pittsburgh, where it was received with public demonstrations. Isaac was mustered out along with his regiment on June 30, 1865.
After the war, probably in the year 1865, Isaac married Eva Marburger. Eva was born in Pennsylvania on May 10, 1843. Her parents were Milton and Eva Marburger. They had come to Pennsylvania from Germany but nothing else is known about them. Isaac and Eva had ten children: Anna May, James, Elmer Ellsworth, Lillian Jeanette, Bessie Carey, George William, Clara Edna, Clifford, Mabelle Ashlyn, and Grace Moore. Isaac, like his father, worked as a shoemaker while Eva kept house. They lived in Harmony, Beaver County until 1885, when they moved to New Brighton. They moved again five years later to Beaver. On July 10, 1906, Eva died of pulmonary tuberculosis in Beaver. Isaac died in Beaver about nine years later on September 7, 1915. The cause of his death was stomach cancer. He and his wife were both buried in Beaver Cemetery. Their daughter Maybelle Ashlyn Umstead was born on November 4, 1884, probably in Harmony. She married Samuel Ray Riddle.
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