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Submitted: 5/6/11 • Approved: 6/15/22 • Last Updated: 6/17/22 • R522658-G522657-S3
Charity
1845 - April 24, 1928
*Obituary
Fayetteville Daily Democrat
Tuesday, May 1, 1928
SHUMATE, Charity VANHOOSE - Until 1918, Mrs. Shumate lived 20 miles east of Fayetteville. In that year she moved with her son, Mr. H. Shumate, to Alma, where she lived until her death.
She died Tuesday, April 24, 1928, from influenza at the age of 83. At the time of her death, she was survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mary Ann Fine of Alma and Mrs. Adaline Williams of Crosses; two sons, M. H. Shumate and J. F. Shumate, both of Alma; and two daughters, Mrs. H. H. Benbrook of Fayetteville and Mrs. S. M. Jones of Boynton, Oklahoma.
Funeral services and burial were held April 25, at the Shumate cemetery near Durham. The Rev. Mr. Hughes of Alma officiated.
Bennett
Company K Arkansas Calvary
Civil War Confederate
1839 - July 29, 1884
*Obituary (Article)
WCHS Flashback Vol. 11, No. 1
SHUMATE, Bennett – Bennett Shumate was born about 1836 in Harlin County, Kentucky and came with his parents to Arkansas in 1837. He was first married to Elizabeth Ballard and they had one son, Lee, who died of pneumonia when he was almost grown. After the death of Elizabeth, Bennett was married on April 5, 1868 to Charity Van Hoose, daughter of John J. Van Hoose and Rachel Mills. Bennett also served in the Civil War in Co. K, Stirman’s Arkansas Cavalry from April, 1862 to May 1865. He was also a Charter Member of the Maguire’s Store Masonic Lodge. According to his Civil War pension record, he died on July 29th, 1884. He left his widow and several children, including John, George, Mark, Lizzie and Nora.
*Obituary
Fayetteville Daily Democrat
Tuesday, May 1, 1928
Wife Charity Shumate passed away at 83 years of age on April 24, 1928. In her obituary it states that her husband Bennett succumb to an illness contracted during the Civil War when he was serving in the Confederate army.
*Obituary
State of Arkansas Confederate Pension Archives
Mrs. Charity Shumate, widow of Bennett Shumate, who died July 29, 1884, filed Widow Application #13857 with the Confederate Pension Board of Washington County for a Confederate widow pension and it was received as allowed August 12, 1905 at the State, citing her husband’s service with Company K, Arkansas Cavalry from 1862 thru 1865.
*Source: Sons of Confederate Veterans, Washington County, Arkansas 2009
Compiled by William W Degge
Contributed on 5/6/11 by nlhall
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