Missouri
(Younkin) Shumaker
(1891-1971)
Georgia
"Missouri" (Younkin) Shumaker was born on Aug. 21, 1891 in Rockwood,
Somerset County, PA, the daughter of Daniel M. and
Elmira (Zimmerman) Younkin.
On New Year’s Eve 1908, Missouri married Ira Clinton Shumaker Sr. (1887-1958), a native of Berlin, Somerset County, and the son of John and Susan (Stutzman) Shumaker. The ceremony was performed by Rev. B.J. Hummel at Rockwood.
The Shumakers had five children – Lulu, Althea, Malzena, Ira C. Shumaker Jr. and Wilbur Shumaker.
Ira was a farmer, and they resided in Rockwood. By 1935, they were living in the South Hills of Pittsburgh.
In October 1934, distant cousin Otto Roosevelt Younkin interviewed Missouri's elderly father for a family history project. Otto's notes state that at the time, Missouri was in possession of an old family Bible containing family records. The whereabouts of the Bible today are unknown, but a copy of Otto's notes is in the Minerd-Miner-Minor Archives.
The Shumakers later moved to a farm at Hickory, Washington County, PA.
Ira
passed away on March 23, 1958. He was age 71 at the time.
Missouri outlived him by 13 years, and died at her home in Hickory on Feb. 9, 1971. She is buried at Jefferson Memorial Cemetery in Pittsburgh's South Hills.
Son Ira C. Shumaker Jr. (1917-1990) married Rita (1918-2007) and had four children -- Patricia L. Kling, James C. Shumaker, William H. Shumaker and Ira R. Shumaker. Ira Jr. passed away in September 1990, at the age of 73. Rita was "in the first graduating class of St. Francis Academy in 1936," said the Washington Observer-Reporter. She passed away at the age of 89 on Sept. 22, 2007.
Shumaker family history information today is on file at the Somerset County (PA) Historical and Genealogical Society, with some of it used in the preparation of this biography.
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