Florence E CUMMINGS

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Telephone operator

Notes:

Never married. Lived with her brother Walter.

Notes:

In the 1920 census, he was a farmer living in Kankakee Twp, La Porte County, Indiana. His father had been born in Indiana, his mother in Germany. Living with him and his family in that census was his brother George and George’s wife and two children.

In the 1940 census, he and Matilda and their three oldest children (all still single) were living in Michigan City, Indiana. He was engaged in his own trucking business. Walter had no occupation. Margaret was a cashier at Woolworth’s. Florence was a telephone operator for Indiana Bell.

His son George was the informant for his death certificate. At the time of John William’s death, John and Matilda and their son George, and probably their daughter Florence, lived at 502 East 9th Street in Michigan City. John WIlliam died from heart failure. He had been a trucker in the landscaping business.

Died:
St. Anthony Hospital

John married Matilda Mary HORNUNG. Matilda (daughter of Franciscum (Frank) HORNUNG and Margaret MEYER) was born on 12 Nov 1884 in Indiana; died on 26 Nov 1972 in La Porte County, Indiana; was buried in Pine Lake Cemetery, La Porte, La Porte County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to her death certificate, for which her daughter Florence Cummings was the informant, Matilda had been involved in a traffic accident on October 18, 1972, in which the car in which she was a passenger was hit by another car. The complications from injuries from that accident, which included a broken jaw, led to a stress ulcer and the gastro-intestinal hemorrhage which was the immediate cause of her death.

Notes:

He was a private in Company G of the 128th Regiment of the Indiana Infantry.

Birth:
location according to 1920 census

George married Mary A RAVEN. Mary was born in 1846 in Germany; died in 1931; was buried in Pine Lake Cemetery, La Porte, La Porte County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called Mary Eul on John William’s death certificate. The Mullen Family Tree calls her Mary Aule.

Notes:

His parents were born in Germany according to the Shockley/Kemp family tree,

Franciscum married Margaret MEYER. Margaret was born on 18 Oct 1862 in Clark County, Indiana; died on 16 Dec 1955 in St. Joseph County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her parents were born in Prussia according to the Shockley/Kemp family tree.

Gerhard married Mathilde HIERD. Mathilde was born in 1816 in Germany; died in 1892 in Clark County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]