Eliza Ida May ALLUM

  General Notes:

Photo: This image of Eliza Ida May ("Ida") Allum is extracted from the group photo of the children of Isaac Allum and Sarah Ann Swart. According to anecdotes, Ida was the spunky daughter. She is known to have crossed out "1869" as her year of birth in the Isaac Allum Bible, writing "1870" in its place. But is 1870 correct or incorrect? Ida does not appear with her parents in the 1870 census when -- if born in 1869 -- she would have been about 11 months old. The 1870 census was taken on August 2. Ida was born on September 6. Ida's year of birth on her gravestone is 1870.

Group photograph from the collection of Shirley Allum Hudlicky (photographed by Shirley in 1964)
Individual image by DeeAnna Allum Granston



1870 BIRTH of Eliza Ida May Allum ("Ida")

1870 CENSUS, Iowa, Poweshiek County, Deep River Township, P.O. Montezuma ("Ida" is not documented with her parents. Had she been born in 1870? The 1870 census was taken on August 2, and Ida was born on September 6. )

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Poweshiek County, Deep River Township ("Ida," age 10, with parents)

1885 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Poweshiek County, Deep River Township ("Ida M.," age 15, with parents)

1888 DEATH of mother, Sarah Ann (Swart) Allum

1892 MARRIAGE of Eliza Ida May Allum and Albert Theodore Marshall on February 9 in Deep River, Poweshiek County, Iowa by Isaac Barnhizer, Baptist Minister

1894 MARRIAGE of father, Isaac Allum, to 3rd wife, Susan (Slack) Pollock

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Keokuk County, English River Township ("Albert T.," age 32, "Farmer") (wife "Ida," age 30) (Albert and Ida are documented as having been married 8 years; Ida was the mother of 1 child, 1 child living in the year 1900)

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Keokuk County, Adams Township, Webster ("A. T." and Ida M.") (names only are in the 1905 Iowa census)

1907 DEATH of father, Isaac Allum

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Keokuk County, German Township ("A. T.," age 42, "Farmer") (wife "Ida," age 39) (Ida is shown as the mother of 1 child, and that child was living in the year 1910; she and Albert had been married 18 years)

1911 DEATH of stepmother, Susan (Slack) (Pollock) Allum

1915 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Keokuk County, German Township, P. O. Harper ("Ida," age 44, born in Pennsylvania, completed 8 years of common school and 2 years of grammar school)

1915 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Keokuk County, German Township, P. O. Harper ("A." Marshall, age 47, "Farmer," born in Iowa, completed 8 years of common school and 2 years of grammar school, earnings in 1914, $676, imcumbrance on farm or home, $6,000, value of farm or home, $15,300)

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Keokuk County, Plank Township ("Albert T.," age 52, "Farmer") (wife "Ida M.," age 48)

1925 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Keokuk County, Webster ("Albert T.," age 57) (wife "Ida M.," age 50)

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Keokuk County, English River Township ("Albert T.," age 62, "Farmer") (wife "Ida M.," age 57)

Albert's age was consistent through the years, while Ida became "progressively younger." By the time the 1930 census was taken, Ida was "5 years younger" than her husband Albert when, in actuality, their births were separated by only 2 or 3 years.

1936 DEATH of husband, Albert Theodore Marshall, at 68 years 6 months 1 day

1957 DEATH, Eliza Ida May (Allum) Marshall, at 86 (or 87) years 11 months 5 days



PHOTOGRAPH from the collection of Shirley Allum Hudlicky:

Group photo in which "Ida" appears with her sisters and brother



CONTRIBUTOR to this page:

Linda Kelley Schlater (marriage certificate for Ida May Marshall and Albert Theodore Marshall; obituary for Ida May; photos of gravestones of A. T. Marshall and Ida Allum Marshall) (not posted)

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Eliza married Albert Theodore MARSHALL, son of John MARSHALL and Julia A. MARSHALL, on February 9, 1892 in Deep River, Poweshiek County, Iowa. (Albert Theodore MARSHALL was born on October 3, 1867 in Webster, Keokuk County, Iowa, died on April 4, 1936 in Webster, Keokuk County, Iowa and was buried in Sorden Cemetery, Keokuk County, Iowa.)