Jennie Daisy Odessa Ruth Lind Jeanette ALLUM

  General Notes:

Photo: In 1964, when I visited the husband and son of "Jennie Daisy Odessa Ruth Lind Jeanette" (Allum) Simmons, Jennie had been gone for almost ten years. I photographed this stone at that time (1964), thus her husband Mark's year of death does not appear in this photo.

Photo from DeeAnna Allum Granston (taken by DeeAnna in 1964)


1882 BIRTH of Jennie Daisy Odessa Ruth Lind Jeanette Allum ("Jennie")


Ardis (Simmons) Steffenson (1902-1990), daughter of Jennie (Allum) Simmons:

"My mother's six names were thrown into a hat, and the order in which they were drawn became the order in which they were used."


1885 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Iowa County, Marengo (no specific date) ("Jennie D.," age 2, is with her parents)

1893 DEATH of infant brother, Walter Francis Allum

1894 DEATH of grandmother, Margaret (McReynolds) Farley

1897 DEATH of mother, Rosanna "Rosa" (Farley) Allum

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Wayne County, South Fork Township (June 1) ("Jennie," age 16, "sister-in-law," is in the household of her elder sister, Alta May Allum Hicks, and brother-in-law Robert Franklin Hicks)

Jennie is also documented in the household of her father and stepmother in 1900, as follows:

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo Township, Marengo (June 4) ("Jennie," age 17, is in the household of her remarried father, "John B.," age 57, and stepmother "Gertrude," age 15) ("Alum" in census)

1901 MARRIAGE of "Jennie" Allum and Mark Agnew Simmons on April 7 at Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa by J. M. McClelland

Witnesses at the wedding of Jennie and Mark were Jennie's father and stepmother, John Banks Allum and Gertrude May (Amrine) Allum (Brown)

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Iowa County, Marengo Township, P. O. Marengo (no specific date) ("Mark" and "J." Simmons) (names only are in the 1905 Iowa State Census)

1908 DEATH of brother, Louis Rex Allum

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo Township, Marengo (April 28) ("Mark A.," age 30, "Salesman, Clothing store") (wife "Jennie," age 27) (Jennie is documented as the mother of 3 children, 3 children living in the year 1910; she and Mark had been married 9 years)

1915 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Iowa County, Marengo Township, P. O. Marengo (no specific date) ("Mrs. Mark A. Simmons," age 31, completed 8 years grammar school, can read and write, born in Iowa, father born Pennsylvania, mother born Iowa, church affiliation Methodist)

1918 REGISTRATION, World War I Draft, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo (September 12) ("Mark Agnew Simmons," age 38, born "April sixth, 1880," occupation, "Merchant," in Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo Township, Marengo (January 14) ("Mark A.," age 40, "Merchant, Retail store") (wife "Jennie," age 38, "Teacher, public school")

1925 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Iowa County, Marengo Township, Marengo (January 1) ("Mark A.," age 45) (wife "Jennie R.," age 42)

1927 DEATH of father, John Banks Allum

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo Towship, Marengo (April 11) ("Mark A.," age 50, "Proprietor, shoe store") (wife "Jennie R.," age 47)

1955 DEATH, Jennie (Allum) Simmons, at 72 years 11 months 29 days

1973 DEATH of husband, Mark Agnew Simmons, at 92 years 9 months 3 days




DESCRIPTION (Mark): "Tall, slender, blue eyes, brown hair" (World War I Draft Registration)



Ardis (Simmons) Steffenson (1902-1990), daughter of Jennie (Allum) Simmons:

"My mother's six names were thrown into a hat, and the order in which they were drawn became the order in which they were used."



DeeAnna Allum Granston, August 29, 1964 letter to Shirley Allum Hudlicky:

"When researching in Marengo, I walked to the Simmons Shoe Store hoping to meet Robert Simmons but also met 84-year-old Mark Simmons. Mark talked about 'Banks,' Jennie, Rex, and his family and answered all questions.



Shirley Allum Hudlicky, September 3, 1964 letter to DeeAnna:

"I enjoyed your account of the genealogical excursions in Marengo, and now you know the thrill of meeting and visiting with the new-found members of the family. I have long ago come to the conclusion that it is worthwhile, if for no other reason than this--bringing the family closer together and, of course, meeting new relatives."





OBITUARY (Jennie):

Funeral services for Mrs. Mark A. Simmons, wife of a Marengo business man, were held at the Methodist church here Tuesday afternoon with the Rev. Harland T. Gant officiating.

Burial was in I.O.O.F. cemetery.

Mrs. Simmons died at her Marengo home Sunday morning. Funeral services were held on what would have been her 73rd birthday.

Jennie R. Simmons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Allum, was born Nov. 29, 1882, at Marengo. On April 7, 1901, she was married to Mark A. Simmons. To this union were born a daughter and four sons.

She is survived by her husband, two sons, Robert and Cedric, all of Marengo, and a daughter, Mrs. Ira Steffeson (sic), Silvis, Illinois. She was preceded in death by her parents, a sister, two brothers and two sons.

Two half-sisters, Mrs. John Schloeman, Cedar Rapids, Mrs. Carl Pelzer, Toledo, and a half-brother, Wren Allum, Chicago, along with five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, also survive.

Casket bearers at the service were Lyle Dye, Vaughn Schulz, Wallace Radeke, Alva Burrell, Lloyd Milling and Charles Lindsay.



BURIAL (Jennie and Mark): I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa, Section A, Lot A - Simmons Family plot



PHOTOGRAPHS:

Mark Agnew Simmons and son Robert Veron Simmons, Marengo, Iowa, taken by DeeAnna, 1964

Gravestones at I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Marengo, Iowa, photos taken by DeeAnna, 1964:

Jennie R. (Allum) Simmons (1882-1955) and Mark A. Simmons (1880-1973)
Mark M. Simmons (1908-1944)
Jean Simmons (1939-1941)
Sybil Jane Simmons (1940-1944)
Maurice Simmons (1911-1912)

Jennie married Mark Agnew SIMMONS, son of Mervin Allen SIMMONS and Mary Virginia AGNEW, on April 7, 1901 in Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa. (Mark Agnew SIMMONS was born on April 6, 1880 in Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa, died on January 9, 1973 in Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa and was buried in I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa.)