Maggie E. J. BUSHONG

  General Notes:

Photo: Nelson and his wife Maggie are not the only Allums buried at Hillcrest Cemetery in Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas. Also there are Nelson's eldest son, Alvin Lorando and his wife Anna; Alvin and Anna's daughter Aileen and her husband Don; Alvin and Anna's son Kenneth Manson Allum, Sr.; and Alvin and Anna's daughter, Berenice Fay, and husband Richard.
From Kenneth M. Allum, Jr. (photo taken in 2005)


Kenneth M. Allum, Jr., November 8, 2004 e-mail to DeeAnna:

"Gravette, Arkansas is a small town in the northwest tip of the state in the Ozarks."


1865 BIRTH of Maggie E. J. Bushong

1870 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Lynn Grove Township, P. O. Newton ("Maggie E. J." Bushong, age 5, with parents)

1880 CENSUS, Nebraska, Frontier County ("Maggie E.," age 14, with parents)

1884 MARRIAGE of Maggie E. J. Bushong and Nelson Melville Allum on January 6 at the bride's father's home in Kilduff, Jasper County, Iowa by Rev. James Furnace


See "Nelson Melville Allum" for additional information

Maggie married Nelson Melville ALLUM, son of Andrew Kimmins ALLUM and Margaret Ann LOAR, on February 6, 1884 in Kilduff, Jasper County, Iowa. (Nelson Melville ALLUM was born on November 17, 1862 in Greene County, Pennsylvania, died on April 5, 1947 in Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas and was buried on April 7, 1947 in Hillcrest Cemetery, Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas.)