Notes for Charles Burton Shumway

Notes for Charles Burton Shumway

MRS C B SHUMWAY SUED

Husband Charges Desertion, but Is Willing to Pay Allmony

Settig forth that his wife had deserted him and taken his two children but asserting that he was willing that she should hace custody of
the youngsters and would pay $50 dollars a month alimony for two years, $40 dollars a month for the next two years and $30 dollars a
month for the following two years, C B Shumway filed suit for divorce from Mrs M J Shumway in the Circuit Court yesterday.

The Shumways were married in Oregon City in 1898. Mrs Shumway is alleged to have deserted her husband in October, 1915. The
children are Ray, aged 14, and Ivern, aged 13.

SOURCE: Mrs. C. B. Shumway Sued Husband Charges Desertion, but Is Willing to Pay Alimony (News Article)
Date: 1916-12-16; Paper: Oregonian

Last rites for Charles B. Shumway, 73, 9736 N.E. Wygant Street, will be at the Gable Funeral home at 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Mr. Shumway died Sunday at a local hospital after a three year illness.

He was born at Anaka, Minn., March 25, 1878, but came to Oregon in 1886 and attended Russelville school. He was an engineer for
the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railroad for more than 30 years and was employed in the shipyards during World War II.

His widow, Cora J., survives, with two sons, R.B. Shumway and I.L. Shumway, and two step-children he had raised from infants.
Mrs. LaVern Kiewell Benson and Robert Kiewell, all of the Portland area. There are three grandchildren and two sisters,
Mrs. Minnie Roark and Mrs. Annie Taylor.
Interment will be at the Lone Fir cemetery.

SOURCE: Obituary from The Oregonian newspaper (August 15, 1951):

BURIED: Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
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