Sarah Louisa ALLUM

  General Notes:

Census: "All in the Family" -- This extract is from the 1870 census for Buena Vista Township in Jasper County, Iowa. In 1870, Sarah (Allum) Blanton, her husband, "J. T. Blanton," and their infant son Arthur lived "almost next door" to the John Supler Allum family. Sarah was descended from William Allum's son Charles W. Allum (1796-1868). John Supler Allum was descended from William Allum's son John (1784-1836).

In 1870, immediately next door to Sarah was the Samuel Fugard family. Later, in 1881, Samuel's son, Ira Fugard, married Rachel Anna Allum, daughter of Jonathan and Ellisabeth (Supler) Allum. Rachel migrated from Pennsylvania to Iowa after graduating from Wayesburg College, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania in 1876. In 1880, Rachel is documented as a school teacher in the household of William Kent in Rock Creek Township, Jasper County, Iowa. (Later, too, the surname KENT would intersect ALLUM through a marriage in the John Supler Allum line.)

Census extract from DeeAnna Allum Granston



1846 BIRTH of Sarah Louisa Allum

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township ("Sarah L.," age 4, with parents) (Thomas and 1st wife Matilda)

1853 MIGRATED from Pennsylvania to Iowa (with parents Thomas and Matilda)

1854 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Scott County, Davenport (Sarah is one of five females--including her mother--in the Thomas Allum household)

1856 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Scott County, Davenport ("Sarah L.," age 10, with parents) (Thomas and 1st wife Matilda)

1859 DEATH of grandmother, Jemima (Barnhart) Allum

1860 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Newton Township, Newton ("Sarah L.," age 13, with parents) (Thomas and 1st wife Matilda)

1863 DEATH of mother Matilda

1865 MARRIAGE of father Thomas to stepmother, Rebecca Wert

1868 DEATH of grandfather, Charles W. Allum (in April)

1868 MARRIAGE of Sarah Louisa Allum and James Thomas Blanton on November 5 in Jasper County, Iowa by Rev. J. C. Brown

1870 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Buena Vista Township, P. O. Newton ("J. T.," age 25, "Farmer") (wife "Sarah," age 23)

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Buena Vista Township, Newton ("J. T.," age 35, "Farmer") (wife "Sarah," age 33)

DEATH of husband, James Thomas Blanton

1897 DEATH of father, Thomas Allum

1900 CENSUS, California, Fresno County, Selma ("Sarah L.," age 53, widow, born "August, 1846 in Iowa, has children Albert, Nettie R. and John W. in her household; she is shown as the mother of 8 children, 5 children living in the year 1900)

1910 CENSUS, California, Fresno County, Selma ("Sarah," age 63, widow; in Sarah's household are her son Arthur, his wife and their two children) (Sarah is documented as having had 8 children, 3 living in 1910)

1918 DEATH of stepmother, Rebecca (Wert) Allum

1920 CENSUS, California, Fresno County, Selma ("Sarah L.," age 73, widow, is alone in her own household)

1930 CENSUS, California, Fresno County, Third Judicial Township ("Sarah L.," widow, is in Fresno County Hospital; her age is undecipherable, but she would have been 83) (Her name is transcribed "Sarah Lee")

Sarah married James Thomas BLANTON, son of John BLANTON and Delila BLANTON, on November 5, 1868 in Jasper County, Iowa. (James Thomas BLANTON was born about 1845 in Danville, Indiana and died before 1900.)