Charles Earl ALLUM

  General Notes:

Photo: Charles Earl Allum, 1890-1926, and an unidentified friend posed in a photographer's setting. Charles -- called "Earl" -- is at right.

Photo from the collection of Shirley Allum Hudlicky



1890 BIRTH of Charles Earl(e) Allum ("Earl") (and "Earl C. Allum")

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo ("Earl," age 10, with parents)

1904 DEATH of grandmother, Nancy (Cumpston) Allum

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Bremer County, Waverly ("Earl," with parents) (the Iowa census for 1905 lists names only)

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Black Hawk County, Waterloo ("Earl," age 19, "Barber," living with parents) ("Carl Callum" in some census indexes, "Allam" in others)

1917 REGISTRATION, World War I Draft, Minnesota, Hennepin County, Minneapolis ("Earle Allum," born "November 21, 1890, in Marengo, Iowa," occupation, "Barber, Grinnell, Iowa," employed by Tom Eastridge, Grinnell,Iowa, marital status, "Single") (Signed, "Earle Allum")

1917 DEATH of father, Isaac Leonard Allum

1920 CENSUS, Minnesota, Hennepin County, Minneapolis ("Earl," age 29, "Barber, Barber Shop," living with mother Ossie)

1921 MARRIAGE of Charles Earl Allum and Laurell Griffin

1926 DEATH, Charles Earl Allum, at 35 years 9 months 23 days

Earl died at the U. S. Veteran's Hospital in Portland, Oregon and is buried in Lincoln Memorial Park in Portland on a Veteran's plot, Lot J, Grave 106. His gravestone reads, "Earl Allum, Minnesota, Pvt. Camp Hospital 27, September 13, 1926"

Cause of death: "Broncho-pneumonia" --obituary in OREGON JOURNAL and OREGONIAN

After Earl's death in 1926, his wife Laurell remarried to a Mr. Scott who resided at Durkee, Baker County, Oregon.

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1937 DEATH of mother, Osa Jane (Allum) Allum



DESCRIPTION (Earl): "Medium height, medium build, blue eyes, brown hair" (World War I Draft Registration)

Charles married Laurell GRIFFIN in 1921 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. (Laurell GRIFFIN was born on March 3, 1903.)