Jonathan Edison ALLUM

  General Notes:

Photo: Jonathan was a handsome young man. This image is cropped from the group photograph in which he appears with his sisters Ida, Hattie and Daisy.

From Shirley Allum Hudlicky (group photo passed down in the John Supler Allum [not Andrew Kimmins Allum] family, photographed by Shirley in 1965)



Of his parents' eight children that included four sons, only two sons survived -- Jonathan Edison Allum and his elder brother, Nelson Melville Allum.

Born to Andrew Kimmins Allum, 1841-1918, and Margaret Ann Loar, 1842-1904, at the age of less than one year Jonathan accompanied his parents from Greene County, Pennsylvania to Jasper County, Iowa in 1869. He lived in Iowa until 1893 when, yet again with his parents, he migrated to Cass County, Missouri. In 1897 in Missouri Jonathan married Anna B. Kirk, supporting himself and wife as a farmer. Did Anna pass on? In 1906 in Oklahoma, Jonathan married Sarah Frances "Fanny" Lain. Already by 1910 he is documented "widower" in the census for that year. With wife Fanny, Jonathan had one child, daughter Lucinda Mae ("Lucy"), born April 1, 1907, died May 20, 1975. Lucy married Clyde A. Wise, 1904-1982, and had two sons. Lucy and Clyde are buried in Highland Cemetery, Ashland, Clark County, Kansas.

Without wife Fanny, Jonathan is buried in Union Center Cemetery near Dacoma in Woods County, Oklahoma, the same cemetery in which his parents, Andrew and Margaret, are interred. Second wife Fanny is with her own parents at Oak Park Cemetery, Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma.


--DeeAnna Allum Granston



1868 BIRTH of Jonathan Edison Allum ("Edison") (Edward" in some census records) ("Edd" -- with two d's)

1869 MIGRATION with parents from Greene County, Pennsylvania to Jasper County, Iowa

1870 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Buena Vista Township, P. O. Newton ("Jonathan," age 1, with parents)

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Buena Vista Township ("Edison," age 11, with parents)

1885 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Jasper County, Fairview Township ("Edson," age 16, with parents)

1889 DEATH of grandfather, Jonathan Allum

1893 DEATH of grandmother, Ellisabeth (Supler) Allum

1893 MOVE from Iowa to Missouri

1897 MARRIAGE of Jonathan Edison Allum and Anna B. Kirk on October 20 in Missouri (probably Cass County)

1900 CENSUS, Missouri, Cass County, Camp Branch Township ("Edward," age 31, "Farmer") (wife "Annie," age 25)

1901 MOVE from Missouri to Oklahoma

1904 DEATH of mother, Margaret Ann (Loar) Allum

DID first wife Anna (Kirk) Allum die between 1900 and 1906? Or were she and Jonathan divorced?

1906 MARRIAGE of Jonathan E. Allum and Fanny Lain on June 8 in Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma

1909 DEATH of second wife, Sarah Frances "Fanny" (Lain) Allum, at 35 years 9 months 20 days

Sarah Frances "Fanny" is buried with her parents, Eldridge Sutton Lain and Lucinda (Pennington) Lain, in Oak Park Cemetery in Lincoln County, Oklahoma

1910 CENSUS, Oklahoma, Woods County, Valley Township ("Edward," age 41, widower, is in the household of his widower father, Andrew Kimmins Allum; with Edison and Andrew is Edison's daughter Lucy, age 3) (Edison's occupation in 1910 -- "none")

1918 DEATH of father, Andrew Kimmins Allum

1920 CENSUS, Oklahoma, Woods County, Valley Township ("J. E.," age 51, "Farmer") (Only J. E. and daughter Lucy are in J. E.'s household)

1930 CENSUS, Oklahoma, Woods County, Belle Township, Dacoma ("Jonathan E.," age 61, widower, "Laborer")

1955 DEATH, Jonathan Edison Allum, at 86 years 0 months 13 days




BOOK: THE LOAR GENEALOGY with Cognate Branches, 1774-1947, by Emma Loar Gaddis, Manson, Iowa, Edward Brothers, Inc. Ann Arbor Michigan, 1949, page 125:

Jonathan Edison Allum, born December 25, 1868, in Greene County, Pennsylvania. Was twice married, first to Anna B. Kirk of East Lynn, Missouri, October 20, 1897. No issue. Second marriage to Fanny Lain, June 8, 1906, at Chandler, Oklahoma. One child.




OBITUARY (Jonathan) from THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, January 8, 1955:


Dacoman's Service Held at Stiles Chapel Saturday

Services were held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Stiles chapel for Jonathan Edison Allum, Dacoma resident for a number of years who died in Alva Jan. 7. He was 86 years of age.

The Rev. Reuel Wampler of Dacoma officiated at the service and Stiles directed burial in Union Center cemetery. Allum was a member of the United Brethren church in Dacoma.

Allum was born Dec. 25, 1868 near Graysville, Penn. With his parents, he moved to Pleasant Hill, Mo. in 1893 and lived there until 1901 when he moved with his family to Oklahoma in a covered wagon. He married Fanny Lain of Chandler on June 8, 1906. She preceded him in death.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Lucy Mae Wise of Ashland, Kans.; two grandchildren, Clyde Wise, Jr. and Kenneth Wise; also one great grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. A. E. Pennington and Mrs. C. F. Graham, both of Alva.

His parents are the late Margaret Ann and Andrew Kinimins (sic) Allum.




CONTRIBUTOR to this page:

Donna Shepherd Dreyer (obituary of Jonathan Edison Allum)

Jonathan married Anna KIRK, daughter of Harvey C. KIRK and Mary Ellen PHILLIPS, on October 20, 1897 in Missouri. (Anna KIRK was born in March 1875 in East Lynne, Cass County, Missouri.)

Jonathan next married Sarah Frances LAIN, daughter of Eldridge Sutton LAIN and Lucinda PENNINGTON, on June 8, 1906 in Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma. (Sarah Frances LAIN was born on June 14, 1873 in Douglas County, Kansas, died on May 4, 1909 in Woods Or Lincoln County, Oklahoma and was buried in Oak Park Cemetery, Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma.)