Cummings, Alma Hull

CUMMINGS

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 6/23/2021 at 10:23:43

Source: History of Warren County, Iowa, by Gerard Schultz and Don L. Berry, The Record and Tribune Co., Indianola, Iowa, 1953, p.295

ALMA HULL CUMMINGS
Mrs. Alma Hull Cummings, daughter of Emmett and Emma Hull, was born at Carlisle Aug. 9, 1889. Her father, Emmett Hull, is the son of Dr. William S. and Margaret (Church) Hull, and the grandson of Jerry Church, who in 1849 laid out the town of Dudley near the mouth of North river. In 1851 the new town was submerged by the great flood of that year, and Jerry Church and Daniel Moore laid out the present town of Carlisle which was named for a town of the same name laid out by Mr. Church in Pennsylvania.
Emma Hull, mother of Mrs. Cummings, was the daughter of J. D. and Eliza (Bender) McGlothlen, who were pioneer settlers of the Avon neighborhood where Mr. McGlothlen entered land on Oct. 30, 1848.
Homer Cummings, husband of Mrs. Alma Hull Cummings, was the son of Benjamin Floyd and Lucretia Cummings, and the grandson of David and Priscilla (Muggy Cummings, who settled in the Scotch Ridge neighborhood in 1849. Homer Cummings was born April 14, 1884, and passed away Feb. 4, 1944.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Cummings had two sons: Roy, who married Marie Mott, and are the parents of two children -Beverly and Tarry; Floyd, who married Pauline Tundahl, and are also the parents of two children - Sharon and Jean.
Mrs. Cummings has lived in the Carlisle community her entire life. She and her husband lived on the farm on which he grew up until shortly prior to his death when they moved to Carlisle where she still resides.