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Buena Vista SCRUGGS

Female 1876 - 1959  (82 years)


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  • Name Buena Vista SCRUGGS  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Birth 22 Feb 1876  Atchison, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Gender Female 
    Reference Number 126 
    Death 22 Jan 1959  Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    • Buried in Rochester Cemetery, Topeka, Kansas. Plot: Sec. 13W, Lot 952. Findagrave Memorial# 67785136
    Person ID I126  scruggshovis
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

    Father Robert SCRUGGS,   b. 1844, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Aug 1877, Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Mary Frances OLIPHANT,   b. 14 Dec 1853, Platte City, Platte, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Sep 1924, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 18 Apr 1874  Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Family ID F51  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ralph LeRoy HUMMEL,   b. 10 Sep 1876, Shiloh, Cumberland, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Sep 1946, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years) 
    Marriage 12 Sep 1901  Atchison, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5, 6
    • Family Tree: juliana_russell_Family_Tree, accessed on Ancestry July 22, 2015.
    Family ID F113  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 22 Feb 1876 - Atchison, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 12 Sep 1901 - Atchison, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 22 Jan 1959 - Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Notes 
    • CENSUS 1880: on familysearch.org. Buena Vista, 4, b. in Kansas, living with her grandmother Matilda44, 6 siblings of her mother and her mother Mary34. location: Walnut, Atchison, Kansas

      CENSUS (Kansas) 1885: on ancestry.com. Binny Scruggs, 8, living with mother Mary31 Scruggs. location: Walnut, Atchison, Kansas.

      CENSUS 1910: on familysearch.org. Buena Visa, 34, b. in Kansas, married 8 years, living with Ralph Humell,33. Location: Oakland City, Topeka Township, Shawnesse County, Kansas.
      (note; not sure why Ralph was living with his parents in 1905 if they have been married 8 years.)

      CENSUS (Kansas) 1915: on ancestry.com. Beana[sic] Vista Hummel, 40, b in Kansas, living in the home of Nancy J Hickox,58 with 7 other people, one of which is Earnest Kirtchley[sic] 42. location: Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas..

      CENSUS 1920: on familysearch.org. Buena Vista Hummel, 43, b. in Kansas, living with husband; RalphL Hummel, 43, and Ernest E Crichley,44. location: Topeka Township, Shawnee County, Kansas

      CENSUS 1930: on familysearch.org. Buena Vista Hummel, 53, b. in Kansas, age 25 at first marriage, occupation: traveling salesman, Shrine Club, living with husband: Ralph L Hummel, 53 and Earnest E Chrickley, 44. Location: Topeka Township, Shawnee County, Kansas

      CENSUS 1940: on familysearch.org. Buena Bista Hommel[sic], 63, b. in Kansas, living with Ernst Chrickly, 64 and her husband Ralph Hommel, 63.location: Topeka Township, Shawnee County, Kansas

      BURIAL 1959: Buena Vista Scruggs Hummel, d. Jan. 22, 1959 in Kansas. Buried in Rochester Cemetery, Topeka, Kansas. Findagrave Memorial# 67785136

      Name of Buena Vista Scruggs Hummel is also found on Ancestry.com on Oliphint Family Tree, accessed in July 2015.

  • Sources 
    1. [S6] Pedigree Resource File.
      Found on familysearch.com. "Pedigree Resource File", database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SYMK-WLG : accessed 2013-09-28),

    2. [S26] 1915 Kansas State Census.
      Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925. Microfilm reels K-1 – K-271. Kansas State Historical Society. Found on Ancestry.com.

    3. [S36] 1880 US Federal Census, Location: Walnut, Atchison, Kansas; Roll: 372; Family History Film: 1254372; Page: 509B; Enumeration District: 011; Image: 1024. Found on Ancestry.com.

    4. [S39] 1920 USA Federal Census, Location: Topeka Ward 6, Shawnee, Kansas; Roll: T625_551; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 181; Image: 950. Found on Ancestry.com.
      NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29.

    5. [S40] 1930 USA Federal Census, Location: Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas; Roll: 722; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 30; Image: 997.0; FHL microfilm: 2340457. Found on Ancestry.com.
      T626, 2,667 rolls.

    6. [S41] 1940 USA Federal Census, Location: Ward 6, Topeka, Topeka City, Shawnee, Kansas, United States. NARA digital publication of T627, roll 1261. Found on familysearch.org.
      citing enumeration district (ED) 89-49A, sheet 11A, family 252 // / pal:/MM9.1.1/VR2D-RJV : accessed 18 Mar 2014) (https://familysearch.org/ pal:/MM9.1.1/VR2D-RJV : accessed 18 Mar 2014).

    7. [S38] 1910 USA Federal Census, Location: Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 189, sheet 5B, NARA microfilm publication T624; FHL microfilm 1,374,470. Found on familysearch.com.

    8. [S32] Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Found on findagrave.com and ancestry.com.
      Kansas, Find a grave, 1854-2012.

    9. [S42] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Source number: 4168.000; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: PHR. Found on Ancestry.com.


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