Charles Elmer ALLUM

  General Notes:

Photo: Predeceased by his only brother, John Monroe Allum, who died at age 19 in 1892, Charles Elmer Allum had seven sisters! Second youngest of his siblings, he appeared with them in a group photograph from which this image was extracted. The group photo was taken in the mid-1890s when Charley was 13 or 14.

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



1882 BIRTH of Charles Elmer Allum ("Charley")

1885 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Poweshiek County, Deep River Township ("Charley," age 3, with parents)

1888 DEATH of mother, Sarah Ann (Swart) Allum

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

1895 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Poweshiek County, Deep River Township ("Charley," age 12)

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Lee County, Madison Township, Fort Madison, Iowa State Penitentiary, Prisoner ("Charlie," age 18, "Farmer")

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Poweshiek County, Deep River Township ("Charles," with father Isaac and stepmother Susan) (names only are in the 1905 Iowa census)

1907 DEATH of father, Isaac Allum

1908 MARRIAGE of Charles Elmer Allum and Adella Fidela "Della" (Richardson) Shifflett on June 11 in Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa

Charley and Adella were residents of Gibson, Keokuk County, Iowa at the time of their marriage

1910 CENSUS. Iowa, Keokuk County, Washington Township, What Cheer ("Charles," age 27, "Deliveryman") (wife "Della," age 27) (Della is documented as the mother of 1 child with that child alive in the year 1910; she and Charles had been married 2 years)

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

1915 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Keokuk County, Washington Township, P. O. What Cheer ("Charlie," age 33, "Farmer," born in Iowa, completed 8 years of common school, earnings for 1914, "$1,100)

1915 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Keokuk County, Washington Township, P. O. What Cheer ("Della," age 33, born in Iowa, completed 10 years of common school

1918 REGISTRATION, World War I Draft, Iowa, Keokuk County, What Cheer ("Charles Allum," age 36, born January 14, 1882, occupation "Farming")

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Keokuk County, English River Township ("Charles E.," age 37, "Laborer, farm") (wife "Della," age 37)

1925 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Keokuk County, Plank Township ("C. E.," age 48, "Farmer") (wife "Della F.," age 42) (in the household are daughter "Lucille" and stepson "C. C. Shefflett")

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Keokuk County, English River Township ("Charles," age 48, "Farmer") (wife "Della F.," age 44)

1930 DEATH, Charles Elmer Allum, at 48 years 3 months 4 days

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1955 DEATH of wife, Adella (Richardson) (Shifflett) Allum, at 71 years 6 months 24 days



DESCRIPTION (Charles): "Tall, stout" (no eye or hair color provided) (World War I Draft Registration)



PHOTOGRAPH from the collection of Shirley Allum Hudlicky:

Group photo in which Charley appears with his sisters



CONTRIBUTOR to this page:

Linda Kelley Schlater (marriage record of Charles Elmer Allum and Adella Fidela Richardson Shifflett; obituaries for Charles and "Della" and a different photo of their gravestone) (not posted)

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Charles married Adella Fidela (Richardson) SHIFFLETT, daughter of Thomas RICHARDSON and Mary JOHNS, on June 11, 1908 in Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa. (Adella Fidela (Richardson) SHIFFLETT was born on December 5, 1883 in Mahaska County, Iowa, died on June 29, 1955 in Sigourney, Keokuk County, Iowa and was buried on July 2, 1955 in White Oak Cemetery, Prairie Township, Keokuk County, Iowa.)