Silas Shumate

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Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/16/2010 at 16:52:12

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Silas Shumate
By Lois (Shumate) Worth and Milton C Shumate

Silas Shumate (Shoemate in the 1890-91 History of Woodbury and Plymouth Counties) was born in 1841 in Jackson County, Ohio, son of Parkason and Abigail (Null) Shumate, natives of Virginia. He attended district school there and was wounded in the Civil War. After marrying Elizabeth Yeager, daughter of Sam Yearger, German descent, in 1868, he migrated to Plymouth County, Iowa, where he farmed, taught school, and politically Republican, served as Justice of the Peace-Trustee in Hungersford Township. In his middle years, he joined one of the Oklahoma land rushes. Upon returning to SIouxland, he continued to farm and teach. He died in 1916 after spending time in the Soldier’s Home, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Elizabeth died before 1920 in Leeds, Iowa. Frances May, who died in the mid-50s, was the last of their nine children (listed below, not necessarily in order of birth), all presumed to have been born near James, Iowa.

Stella J married Bogenreif, lived in Hinton many years, and died before WWII; she had no children.

Frances May married Jack Crotty and lived in Leeds for many years. Their son, Ed, deceased, served in the Navy during WWI, fathered four children, and lived in Portland, Oregon, for many years. A daughter died in infancy.

Edgar Carleton spent his life in the Sioux City area, married Cora Luce (Leeds), operated a service station in Moville for many years. He died in 1943. Their son, Carol, died at fourteen in 1920; daughter, Vesta Luverne, 1910-1977, married Quentin Hendrickson, Sioux City, deceased; they had no children and lived in Los Angeles, California, for many years.

Clarence Adolphus never married. He spent much of his life in the Iowa State Mental Hospital in Cherokee and died in the 1950s.

Claude Thomas, 1877-1950, carpenter, homesteaded in Colorado, managed Fullerton Lumber Companies in Moville and South Dakota, and farmed near Moville from 1924-1928. He built a number of homes in Moville. In the early 40s, he moved to Oregon, lived in Idaho for a time, and died in Leeds in 1950. He married Florence Lucinda Mullen, daughter of Clark and Sarah (Newman) Mullen, in Burlington, Colorado, March 24, 1909. Florence, 1887-1973, was born in Montgomery County, Iowa, graduated from Moville High School about 1905, and moved to Colorado with her parents, where she rode horseback to teach school. She reared five children) all of whom graduated from Moville High School) in the Moville area and died in a rest home near Sioux City. The five children are:
Milton Clark, born 1910 in a sodhouse on a Colorado homestead and educated in South Dakota and Moville schools. He served briefly in the navy after high school, then returned to Moville where he joined the Iowa Public Service. He married Louise Lavon Strong, born 1912, daughter of M S Strong of Climbing Hill, in 1936, and served in WWII in a Navy CB (construction battalion). They have two daughters, Rita Louise (Mahaffa), born 1946, mother of three sons; and Merrilyn Faith (Rohner), born 1951, mother of a caughter and son. Milton retired in 1974 to a small acreage near Moville to develop a wildlife refuge.
Floyd Russell, 1912-1970, was born in Kansas and worked as a carpenter in the Moville area before and after service in the Navy CB’s in WWII. He married Dorothy Weaver, 1914-1979, in 1946. They had two sons: Scott Lee, born 1947, who has two daughters; and Mark Evan, born 1950, married and adopted two children.
Ralph Emery, born 1915, was born in Moville. After high school, he migrated to Oregon, Costa Rica, and California, served in the CB’s of WWII, and now lives in Portland, Oregon. He married and divorced Burnice Fissel and Imogene Powell and has two daughters by his first marriage: Lois Louise (Tonning), born 1943, mother of two daughters. Lois Lavon, born 1916, in Moville, migrated William E Worth in 1948. They have a daughter, Randa Luverne Worth-Cederholm-Ward-Worth, born 1952, mother of a daughter and son (surname Cederholm,.
Verna Joy, born 1924, in rural Moville, married Ralph Noel in 1943, and migrated to Bend, Oregon, in 1948. They have two daughters and a son: Janet Kay (Lueck), born 1946, who has a daughter and two sons, Lucinda Jane (Shaver), born 1950, mother of a daughter and a son, and Joseph Edward, born 1955.
Wallace was a migratory farm worker who never married and died in Minnesota sometime in the 40s or 50s.
Rose lived in Sioux City all her life, married a Bogenreif, and died in middle age. She had two sons: Henry Wallace, living in Leeds, Iowa, and Clarence, who died in 1982. Clarence has a son and a daughter.
Lillian lived in Sioux City most of her life and died at age 60. She married Ray Brown, deceased, and Eugene Stevens, deceased, a fireman in Sioux City for many years. She had a daughter, Estelle Brown-Pound-Mitchell-Woitha, who died in Southern California, 1909-1976.
James lived in the Sioux City area all of his life, taught instrumental music, and was married and divorced. He had no children and died in Des Moines in the early 40s.