Alvin Lorando ALLUM

  General Notes:

Photo: Because Alvin Lorando Allum, 1885-1974, was a promoter of local sports, the official scorekeeper for high school baseball games, and attended nearly all high football and basketball games, his beloved nickname "Pop" marks the entrance to the park dedicated in his honor in Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas. The park is the new location of all baseball, soccer, football and track fields for all schools in Gravette.

Standing beside the engraved sign are brothers Alvin Leland "Lee" Allum, left, and Kenneth Manson Allum, Jr., right (grandsons of Alvin Lorando Allum).

From Kenneth M. Allum, Jr.


Kenneth M. Allum, Jr.

"Alvin worked for the railroad from Iowa into Colorado and back to Hutchinson, Kansas where he married Anna Marie Walker in 1905. In our family line he was the transition from farmer to merchant. Alvin and Marie had four children, and the entire family moved to Gravette, Arkansas in 1922--presumably to manage the farm Alvin's father Nelson had bought or inherited near there--but they soon moved into town where ' A. L. ' continued his building trades and established a building supply and appliance store."



1885 BIRTH of Alvin Lorando Allum ("Alvin" and "A. L.")

1900 CENSUS

1904 DEATH of grandmother, Margaret Ann (Loar) Allum

1905 CENSUS, Kansas State Census taken March 1, Reno County, Hutchinson ("Alvin L.," age 19, occupation ?, is in the household of his parents, "Nelson M.," age 42, and "Maggie E.," age 39; also in the household are Alvin's brothers, "William A.," age 17; "Roy M.," age 12; and "Warren," age 3, plus his maternal grandfather, "George Bushong," age 70) (This census documents Alvin as having been born in Iowa; he arrived in Kansas from Colorado)

Kenneth M. Allum, Jr., January 29, 2008 e-mail to DeeAnna:

"After restudying the 1905 census, I wonder if Alvin's occupation is "coach cleaner" as in passenger cars on the railroad? Nelson is ' car inspector,' likely a supervisor in the same line of work. Alvin once said he had worked for the railroad (among multitudinous occupations).

"From the birth locations of the children, it would appear they shuttled back and forth from Colorado to Kansas in the decade prior to the 1905 census. Roy was born in Kansas, Warren in Colorado, and in 1905 they are back in Kansas."

1905 MARRIAGE of Alvin Lorando Allum and Anna Marie Walker on December 20 in Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas

Kenneth M. Allum, Jr.:

"I have the marriage certificate of Alvin and Anna."

1910 CENSUS, Kansas, Kingman County, Galesburg Township ("Alvin L.," age 24, "Farmer") (wife "Anna M.," age 28) (Anna is documented as the mother of 2 children, 2 children living in the year 1910; she and Alvin had been married 5 years)

1918 DEATH of grandfather, Andrew Kimmins Allum

1918 REGISTRATION, World War I Draft, Kansas, Sedgwick County, Wichita ("Alvin Lorando Allum," age 33, born "July 6, 1885," occupation, "Bookkeeper, Head Shoe Co")

1920 CENSUS, Kansas, Sedgwick County, Wichita ("Alvin L.," age 36, "Salesman, Shoe Store") (wife "Anna M.," age 38)

1930 CENSUS, Arkansas, Benton County, Gravette ("Alvin L.," age 44, "Carpenter, General Building") (wife "Anna," age 48, "Retail Merchant, Wall Paper")

1944 DEATH of mother, Maggie E. J. (Bushong) Allum

1947 DEATH of father, Nelson Melville Allum

1955 DEATH of wife, Anna Marie (Walker) Allum, at approximately 74 years

1974 DEATH, Alvin Lorando Allum, at approximately 88 years




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

OCCUPATIONS (Alvin): Farmer, salesman, fruit grower; railroad employee; owned-operated a building supply-appliance store




BOOK: THE LOAR GENEALOGY with Cognate Branches, 1774-1947, by Emma Loar Gaddis, Manson, Iowa, Edward Brothers, Inc. Ann Arbor Michigan, 1949, page 124:

Alvin L. Allum born July 6, 1885, in Jasper County, Iowa. Married December 20, 1905, to Miss Anna M. Walker, born in Boone County, Iowa, May 7, 1881. In religious faith both are M. E. and in occupation, farming, salesman, and fruit growing.

Alvin married Anna Marie WALKER, daughter of James Manson WALKER and Mary WALKER, on December 20, 1905 in Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas. (Anna Marie WALKER was born on May 7, 1881 in Boone County, Iowa, died in 1955 and was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas.)