John Harrison ALLUM

  General Notes:

Wedding Article: The 1912 newspaper article pertaining to the wedding of John Harrison "Harry" Allum and Orpha Brewer was photographed by Shirley Allum Hudlicky in Greene County, Pennsylvania in 1965.



1891 BIRTH of John Harrison Allum ("Harry")

1900 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (June 6) ("Harry J.," age 9, born "February, 1891 in Pennsylvania," is with his parents)

1910 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (May 9) ("John H.," age 19, is with his parents)

1912 MARRIAGE of John Harrison Allum to first wife, Orpha Brewer, on October 15 in Morrisville, Greene County, Pennsylvania


ALLUM-BREWER

Harry Allum, teacher of the Supler school in Richhill township, and Miss Orpha Brewer of Richhill township were quietly married last Tuesday while Mr. Allum was attending county institute in Waynesburg. Mr. Allum is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Allum, and the bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Brewer, all of Richhill township. The parents were not consulted previous to the marriage, but the young couple were extended a reception at the home of the bride Friday evening.


1913 DEATH of first wife, Orpha (Brewer) Allum, at approximately 18 years of age

Cause of death: "Convolutions and kidney trouble" --Greene County, Pennsylvania Death Records

Note: Orpha died two days after giving birth to her daughter, Orpha "Cleo" Allum


1915 MARRIAGE of John Harrison Allum to second wife, Nettie Elzena Dague, on June 8 in Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania by J. L. Kopp

1918 REGISTRATION, World War I Draft, Pennsylvania, Washington County, East Finley Township, Claysville (June 5) ("Harry Allum," age 26, born "February 19, 1891," in Greene County, Pennsylvania, occupation, "Farmer," self-employed in East Finley Township, married, wife and child)

1920 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, East Finley Township (January 27 & 28) ("Harry," age 28, "Farmer") (wife "Elzena," age 26) ("Mary Dague," age 64, is "mother-in-law" in the Allum household)

1930 CENSUS. Where?

1942 REGISTRATION, World War II, Pennsylvania, Washington County, East Finley Township, West Finley ("John Harry Allum," age 51, born "February 19, 1891 in Greene County, Pennsylvania," self-employed farmer, contact "Elzena N. Allum, R. D. 1, West Finley, Pennsylvania")

1959 DEATH of second wife, Nettie Elzena (Dague) Allum, at approximately 66 years

1971 DEATH, John Harrison Allum, at 80 years 6 months 0 days




DESCRIPTION (Harry): "Short, slender, dark blue eyes, dark brown hair" (World War I Draft Registration)




OBITUARY (Orpha) from WAYNESBURG REPUBLICAN, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1913:


MRS. HARRY ALLUM

Mrs. Harry Allum died at her home in Richhill township, Monday, April 21. She was a daughter of John Brewer and beside her husband is survived by her parents and two sisters. The young couple had been married only about six months and her death causes much sorrow in the community of Burdette, where she lived.




OBITUARY (Orpha) from an undocumented 1913 newspaper:

Waynesburg, April 23--Mrs. Orpha Allum, wife of Harry Allum, a well-known school teacher, died at her home near Burdette Tuesday morning. She had been ill since Sunday evening. Mrs. Allum was 18 years of age and had been married but a few months. Beside her husband, she leaves her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. John Brewer, of near Graysville, and two sisters, Alma and Frances Brewer, at home. She was a member of the Unity Presbyterian church at Graysville. Short services were held today at the Burdette home, the services being in charge of the Rev. A. R. Rush. Funeral services will be held at the home of the parents Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Interment will be at Wind Ridge.




PHOTOGRAPHS (from Shirley Allum Hudlicky):

Wedding account of "Harry" and Orpha (1912) (photograph of)

Obituary for Orpha (Brewer) Allum (1895-1913) (photograph of)

John married Orpha BREWER, daughter of John BREWER and Anna Belle BREWER, on October 15, 1912 in Morrisville, Greene County, Pennsylvania. (Orpha BREWER was born in July 1894 in Greene County, Pennsylvania, died on April 23, 1913 in (Near) Burdette, Greene County, Pennsylvania and was buried on April 24, 1913 in Jacksonville Cemetery, Wind Ridge, Greene County, Pennsylvania.)

John next married Nettie Elzena DAGUE, daughter of John Adams DAGUE and Mary Martha (Plants) EALY, on June 8, 1915 in Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania. (Nettie Elzena DAGUE was born in 1893 in Pennsylvania, died on December 15, 1959 in West Finley, Washington County, Pennsylvania and was buried in Fairmount Cemetery, East Finley, Washington County, Pennsylvania.)