Pennsylvania Family Group Sheet for Frank CUMMINGS Family

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Submitted by: Sharon Pinkerton Wayland
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Husband:            Frank CUMMINGS                 (5)(6)(7)              	           
Birth date:         1870/71		 
Birthplace:         Pennsylvania
Death date:         Unknown          
Place of death:     Unknown        
Father:    ______ CUMMINGS
Mother:    Unknown

Marriage date:      1885-1907
Marriage place:     Schuylkill County, PA

Wife:               Emily "Emma" PEIFFER           (1)(4)(7)(9)
Birth date:         October 1875   
Birthplace:         Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA
Death date:         1908     
Place of death:     Schuylkill County, PA
Buried:    Llewellyn Cemetery, Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA       
Father:    Isaac PEIFFER       (1832-1906)         (1)(3)(4)(6)(8)
Mother:    Maria Lucy HAINES   (1845-1881)         (1)(3)


CHILDREN -  None 

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Documentation: 
 1. Llewellyn Cemetery, On-site visit 1991 by Dorothy, Harold, and Lester PINKERTON: 
    Single low rectangular gray marble stone with the heading "PEIFFER" and beneath,  
    "Isaac  Died 1906, Lucy Died 1881"; To the right of the PEIFFER stone in the same 
    plot is a single gray marble stone, "Emily CUMMINGS Died 1908".
 2. 1850 Federal Census Llewellyn, Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA: "John 
    CUMMINGS, 35, Miner, born in Ireland; Mary 30, Ireland; Thomas 17, Ireland; Mary 
    13, Ireland; James, 10, Ireland; June 8, Ireland; Hugh 4, PA; Bridgett 1, PA."
 3. 1870 Federal Census Llewellyn, Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA: "Mary 
    CUMMINGS, 45, Keeping house, Ireland; John 16, underground Laborer, born in PA; 
    James, 14, Coal Breaker worker, born in PA."; "Isaac PEIFER, 37, Farm Laborer, 
    $300, born in PA, Maria, wife, 25; Lavinia 4; William 2; James 1."  
 4. 1880 Federal Census Llewellyn, Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA: "Isaac 
    PEIFFER, 41, Farm Laborer, born in PA; Catherine, daughter 16, Keeping house; 
    William, son 12; James, son 11; Emma, daughter 5." 
 5. 1880 Federal Census Pottsville, Schuylkill County, PA: "Mary Cummings, 31, dress 
    maker; Hugh Cummings, 38, brother, machinist; Frank 9, nephew, at school."
 6. Directory of the Eleventh Census of Schuylkill County, PA: Branch Township - 
    "Isaac PEIFFER, 59, Laborer, Rebecca"; Pottsville, NW Ward - "Mary Ann CUMMINGS, 
    tailoress, 825 Minersville Street, Hugh 50, machinist, Frank 19, teamster."
 7. Schuylkill County Marriage Docket, Schuylkill County Courthouse, Pottsville, PA: 
    Book 7, Number A 1239, 1885-1910 Emily PIEFFER and Frank CUMMINGS."
 8. 1900 Federal Census Branch Township, Schuylkill COunty, PA: "Isaac PEIFFER, 68, 
    Feb 1832; Rebecca, 62, Dec 1838, 5 children/three living."     
 9. Family Oral History given in 1981 by the daughter of William Francis PEIFFER, 
    Nellie PEIFFER PINKERTON (1889-1990): "Aunt Emily lived in Frackville.  Lester 
    (Pinkerton) has seashells that Emily collected at the Seashore on a visit to 
    Dollie (Dorothy E. PEIFFER) at Ocean Grove.  Dollie and I would go to visit her. 
    She was a kind person.  She had no children.  When Dollie was a little girl, Emily 
    made her a doll's dress, which Dollie always prized.  It is pressed in the family 
    Bible."

Notes: 
   	* Harold L. PINKERTON, Sr. genealogy source notebook "Isaac PEIFFER Family" 
          contains a section on "Emily PEIFFER CUMMINGS". Harold LeRoy PINKERTON, Sr. 
          is a grandson of William Francis PEIFFER (1867-1929), the brother of Emily 
          PEIFFER CUMMINGS.