Titus Brum

Titus Brum h 76 S Cayuga St

Ithaca Directory 1872, page 26.

Titus Brum h 72 S Cayuga St

Ithaca Directory 1878, page 33.

Titus Brum, unknown-1881

Titus Brum Find a Grave Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39356242/titus-brum

Head-Titus Brum, age 75, born Greene County, married, none (occupation),owner of land
Wife-Eunice Brum, age 72, born Cayuga County, married
Son-Theodore F. Brum, age 29, born Tompkins County, single, waiter in hotel
Daughter-Alice Brum, age 23, born Tompkins County, single
Son's [Frederick Brum]wife-Julia Brum, age 33, born Ontario County, married
Grandson-Fred Brum Jr, age 13, born Tompkins County, single
Grandson-Willie Brum, age 11, born Tompkins County, single
Granddaughter-Adelaide Brum, age 2 months, born Tompkins County, single

1875 NY State Census, Town of Ithaca, ED 2, p12

"Titus Brum (1800-1881) and Eunice Brum (1803-1895) were early residents of Ithaca. Born in Genoa in 1803, Eunice moved to Ithaca in the 1810s, when she was 10 or twelve years old. Titus Brum, who was born in Greene County in about 1800, purchased a lot on South Cayuga Street in 1824. Titus and Eunice raised a large family in the house. Titus was a charter member of the First Baptist Church founded in 1826-1827, and for several decades Eunice was known as the preeminent caterer in the village. For more than three decades “no fashionable wedding in Ithaca and vicinity has been regarded strictly en regle unless Mrs. Brum was the presiding genius over the accompanying feast,” noted the Ithaca Daily Journal in 1885. The Brums actively supported abolition of slavery. The attic of the Brum home was reportedly a haven for freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad before the Civil War. Eunice and Titus’s oldest child, Ira Brum (1836-1865), served in Company F of the 185th New York Volunteers, reportedly as its only black soldier. He died of typhoid fever shortly after his company was mustered out of service in 1865. In 1951, the Brum’s granddaughter, Jessie Johnson (1860-1951), died and left her home to the Southside Community Center and to the First Baptist Church. A later generation recognized the Brum family’s vital contributions to Ithaca history in July 2012, when the Tompkins County Civil War 150th Commemoration Commission unveiled the restoration of the Brum family gravestone at the Ithaca City Cemetery.”

"The Brum Family" https://www.fingerlakesfilmtrail.org/ithaca-city-cemetery