Hazel Ann ALLUM

  General Notes:

Photo: Youngest of the four daughters of Isaac Francis and Ida (Smith) Allum -- and last to marry -- Hazel Ann Allum and Leslie Beryl Cork were wed on June 24, 1914 in Gregory County, South Dakota where they posed for this wedding photo. Both became Doctors of Chiropractic. Born in Iowa, Hazel subsequently lived in South Dakota and Colorado.

Leslie was a younger brother of William Roy Cork, husband of Hazel's elder sister, Hattie May. "Roy" and Hattie had been married in 1903.

From the collection of Shirley Allum Hudlicky



Shirley Allum Hudlicky

"My Aunt Hazel and Uncle Leslie both have brown eyes and, of their children, two have blue eyes and one has brown. Genetically I believe this is most unusual."



1894 BIRTH of Hazel Ann Allum

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Monona County, St. Clair Township ("Hazel," age 6, with parents) ("Alum" in census)

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Monona County, St. Clair Township ("I. F.," wife Ida, children Claude, Elza, Hazel, and Orva) (no ages are provided in the 1905 census)

1905 MOVE with parents from Monona County, Iowa to Spring Valley Township, Gregory County, South Dakota (in May)

1910 CENSUS, South Dakota, Gregory County, Spring Valley Township ("Hazel A.," age 16, with parents)

1913 GRADUATION for (future) husband, Leslie Beryl Cork, from the Universal Chiropractic College in Davenport, Scott County, Iowa

1914 MARRIAGE of Hazel Ann Allum and Leslie Beryl Cork on June 24 near Paxton, Gregory County, South Dakota by Rev. W. H. Merrill at the Cork Home

1917 REGISTRATION, World War I Draft, residence Iowa, Scott County, Davenport ("Leslie Berle Cork," age 28, "Doctor of Chiropractic")


Shirley:

"Leslie practiced chiropractic in Rapid City, South Dakota where a daughter was born in 1917. Hazel began the study of chiropractic, and she enrolled and graduated from the same college in 1919. They moved to Gregory, South Dakota where they both practiced for many years."


1919 GRADUATION for Hazel from the Universal Chiropractic College in Davenport, Scott County, Iowa

1920 CENSUS, South Dakota, Gregory County, Gregory ("Leslie B.," age 30, and "Hazel A.," age 25, are both designated "Physician, Chiropractor")

1929 DEATH of father, Isaac Francis Allum

1930 CENSUS, South Dakota, Gregory County, Gregory ("Leslie B." age 41, "Chiropractor, General Practice") (wife "Hazel A.," age 35) (Cork is transcribed "Coole" in some census indexes)

1942 DEATH of mother, Ida Florence (Smith) Allum

1960 DEATH of husband, Leslie Beryl Cork at 71 years 0 months 2 days

Cause of death: "Heart attack" --Shirley Allum Hudlicky

1996 DEATH, Hazel Ann (Allum) Cork, at 98 years 5 months 23 days




DESCRIPTION (Leslie): "Medium height, slender build, brown eyes, brown hair" (World War I Draft Registration)

MILITARY SERVICE (Leslie): None documented

OCCUPATION (Leslie and Hazel): Chiropractor

LOCATIONS: Iowa; South Dakota; Colorado

CHURCH AFFILIATION: Methodist



PHOTOGRAPH (from Shirley):

Hazel Ann (Allum) Cork and Leslie Beryl Cork wedding photo (married June 24, 1914)

Hazel married Leslie Beryl CORK, son of Thomas Jefferson CORK and Mary Margaret LUKECART, on June 14, 1914 near Paxton, Gregory County, South Dakota. (Leslie Beryl CORK was born on February 27, 1889 in Mapleton, Monona County, Iowa, died on March 1, 1960 in Gregory, Gregory County, South Dakota and was buried in I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Gregory, Gregory County, South Dakota.)