Agnes Kathryn ALLUM

  General Notes:

Photo: Agnes Kathryn (Allum) Kent--called "Katie"--was the only child of James Newton Allum and his wife, Anna (Bowermaster) Allum. Like her parents she, too, died rather young--at age 44. She bore five children with Charles Elmer Kent, who oulived her by thirty years. Buried within the same cemetery as her parents--Our Silent City Cemetery at Kellogg, Jasper County, Iowa--her stone was photographed by Shirley Allum Hudlicky in 1965.

Photo from Shirley Allum Hudicky (taken by Shirley in 1965)



1894 BIRTH of Agnes Kathryn Allum ("Katie")

1895 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Jasper County, Kellogg Township, Town of Kellogg ("Agnes," age "0," with parents)

1900 DEATH of mother, Anna (Bowermaster) Allum (on April 15)

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Kellogg Township, Town of Kellogg (June 5) ("Katie," age 5, born "August, 1894 in Iowa," and her father, James Newton Allum, age 37, born "June, 1862 in Pennsylvania," are in the household of Katie's paternal grandparents, John Supler Allum and Elisabeth [Loar] Allum; Katie's mother Anna had died less than two months earlier) ("Allena" in some census indexes, "Allmer" in others)

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Jasper County, Kellogg Township ("Katie" is with her father, "J. N. Allum" in the household of her paternal grandparenbts, "J. S. Allum" and "Elizabeth Allum") (names only are in the Iowa State Census)

1905 DEATH of father, James Newton Allum

1910 CENSUS. Where?


1913 newspaper IOWA RECORDER, Greene, Butler County, Iowa, August 27:

"Miss Agnes Allum and Albert Allum are guests at the Beugelin home."

Is this a reference to Agnes Kathryn Allum? If not, who is the Agnes referred to above? And who is Albert?! Some of the children of Isaac Leonard Allum and Osa Jane Allum did live in Butler County, Iowa, but none were named Agnes or Albert.


1914 MARRIAGE of Agnes Kathryn Allum and Charles Elmer Kent on October 29 in Kellogg, Jasper County, Iowa


1917 newspaper, KELLOGG ENTERPRISE, Kellogg, Jasper County, Iowa, April 6:

"Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Kent of the Murphy neighborhood are the parents of a son, born Tuesday, March 27, 1917. There are now two boys in the home. The mother was formerly Miss Katie Allum."

(The newspaper reference is to the birth of Charles Leroy Kent. Was his date of birth March 20, as stated in THE LOAR GENEALOGY, or March 27, stated in the newspaper? --DeeAnna)


1917 REGISTRATION, World War I Draft, Iowa, Jasper County, Kellogg (June 5) ("Charles Elmer Kent," born "October 23, 1895 in Richland Township, Jasper County, Iowa," self-employed farmer in Kellogg, Iowa, married with two children)

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Buena Vista Township (January 7 & 8) ("Charles, age 24, "Laborer, "Farm") (Transcribed "Charles C." in some census indexes) (wife "Catharine," age 25)

1921 DEATH of grandmother, Elisabeth (Loar) Allum

1923 DEATH of grandfather, John Supler Allum

1925 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Jasper County, Buena Vista Township (January 1) ("Elmer," age 29) (wife "Kathryn," age 30)

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Kellogg Township, Kellogg (April 28) (Kathryn, age 35, is head of the household with sons James C., Charles L., Ernest W., Carroll E., and daughter Doris I.) (Kathryn's name is transcribed as "Catherine A. Kerst" in some census indexes)

In 1930, a Elmer C. Kent, born in Iowa, is a boarder in the Edward M. and Margaret Clark household in East Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois; occupation, "Punch Press Operator, ? Plant")

1931 DIVORCE of Agnes Kathryn (Allum) Kent and Charles Elmer Kent

1939 DEATH, Agnes Kathryn (Allum) Kent, at 44 years 5 months 0 days

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1970 DEATH of former husband, Charles Elmer Kent, at 74 years 8 months 4 days




DESCRIPTION (Charles): "Tall, medium build, blue eyes, dark brown hair" (World War I Draft Registration)




BOOK: THE LOAR GENEALOGY with Cognate Branches, 1774-1947, by Emma Loar Gaddis, Manson, Iowa, Edward Brothers, Inc. Ann Arbor Michigan, 1949, page 210:

Agnes Katherine Allum was born at Kellogg, Iowa, August 15, 1894, and was married October 29, 1914 to Charles Elmer Kent, born October 23, 1895. She was divorced from this husband in 1931, but never married again. She suffered a stroke six months before she passed away on January 15, 1939, in a Newton hospital. Her funeral services were held in the Church of Christ in Kellogg where she was a member, by her pastor, J. Smith, and she was buried in the local cemetery. On the death of the mother, the youngest children were placed in other homes where they were cared for.




PHOTOGRAPH (from Shirley):

Gravestone of A. Kathryn Kent (1894-1939), Our Silent City Cemetery, Kellogg, Jasper County, Iowa



This page was posted in March, 2006, updated in 2011

Agnes married Charles Elmer KENT, son of Charles Monroe KENT and Josephine Bell NATION, on October 29, 1914 in Kellogg, Jasper County, Iowa. (Charles Elmer KENT was born on October 23, 1895 in Lynnville, Jasper County, Iowa, died on June 27, 1970 in Prescott, Ogemaw County, Michigan and was buried in Newton Union Cemetery, Newton, Newton Township, Jasper County, Iowa.)