Randolph Romaine ALLUM

  General Notes:

Born in Iowa in 1907, Randolph Romaine "Andy" Allum was his parents' first child. By 1930 he and other members of his family resided in the State of Oregon. Andy met an untimely death in 1957 when a logging truck he was driving skidded on an icy road and went over a bank. He had one daughter with wife Bertha.



1907 BIRTH of Randolph Romaine Allum ("Andy")

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Butler County, Coldwater Township, Greene ("Randoff," age 4, with parents)

1915 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Butler County, Greene ("Randolph R.," age 8, born in Iowa, completed 3 years of common school; documented on a personal card, typical of the 1915 Iowa census, Randolph would have lived with his parents)

1917 DEATH of grandfather, Isaac Leonard Allum

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, Crocker Township, Ankeny ("Randolph R.," age 12, with parents)

1930 MARRIAGE of Randolph Romaine "Andy" Allum and Bertha J. White on March 31 in Coburg, Lane County, Oregon by Rev. Henry Myers at the Clayton Allum home

1930 CENSUS, Oregon, Lane County, Willamette Precinct (Randolph, "Barber, Barber Shop") (wife "Bertha J.," age 16) (Bertha is shown as having been born in Nebraska) (census taken April 21)

1937 DEATH of grandmother, Osa Jane (Allum) Allum

1957 DEATH, Randolph Romaine "Andy" Allum, at 50 years 6 months 16 days

Cause of death: "His logging truck skidded on an icy logging road, and he went over a bank" --Shirley Allum Hudlicky

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1963 DEATH of father, Clayton Allum (in September)

1963 DEATH of mother, Henrietta Belle (Patterson) Allum (in November)

1986 DEATH of wife, Bertha (White) Allum, at 72 years 4 months 14 days




OCCUPATION (Andy): Cafe operator; Chief of Police at Delake; Lumber and logging business (sold to a nephew)

LOCATIONS: Shellrock, Iowa; Coburg, Oregon; De Lake, Oregon; 110 Willakenzie Road, Eugene, Oregon (1957)

Randolph married Bertha J. WHITE, daughter of William Selvia WHITE and Mary WHITE, on March 31, 1930 in Coburg, Lane County, Oregon. (Bertha J. WHITE was born on October 6, 1913 in Aurora, Hamilton County, Nebraska, died on February 20, 1986 in Lincoln City, Lincoln County, Oregon and was buried in Rest Haven Memorial Park Cemetery, Eugene, Lane County, Oregon.)