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Caleb Shrum

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Caleb Shrum

Birth
Mount Jackson, Shenandoah County, Virginia, USA
Death
20 Sep 1914 (aged 70)
Shoals, Martin County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Shoals, Martin County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section D, Row 41, Lot 48
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Caleb Shrum

Caleb Shrum, son of Frederick and Lucy Kern Shrum was born at Mt. Jackson, Shenandoah County, Virginia, May 21, 1844 and died September 20, 1914 aged 70 years, 3 months and 29 days.

He was married September 28, 1878 to Miss Ingeby Smith. To this union were born six children, Frederick C. who died in infancy, Clarissa C., Mary E. Clifton, Charles E., Otto D. and Grace L. Shrum.

The mother, five children, three grandchildren and one brother Alfred Shrum of Salem, survive.

In youth he united with the U.B. Church and in 1879 he transferred his membership to the M.E. church at Shoals and remained a faithful member to the end of his life. Caleb Shrum was know as a man chaste in habits and conversation. When the Red school house was used as a place of worship he had charge of the young men's class in the Sunday school as long as that point was on the Shoals circuit. The funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the M.E. Church by Rev. John L. Sims after which the remains were lain to rest in the Spring Hill Cemetery.

Caleb Shrum

Caleb Shrum, son of Frederick and Lucy Kern Shrum was born at Mt. Jackson, Shenandoah County, Virginia, May 21, 1844 and died September 20, 1914 aged 70 years, 3 months and 29 days.

He was married September 28, 1878 to Miss Ingeby Smith. To this union were born six children, Frederick C. who died in infancy, Clarissa C., Mary E. Clifton, Charles E., Otto D. and Grace L. Shrum.

The mother, five children, three grandchildren and one brother Alfred Shrum of Salem, survive.

In youth he united with the U.B. Church and in 1879 he transferred his membership to the M.E. church at Shoals and remained a faithful member to the end of his life. Caleb Shrum was know as a man chaste in habits and conversation. When the Red school house was used as a place of worship he had charge of the young men's class in the Sunday school as long as that point was on the Shoals circuit. The funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the M.E. Church by Rev. John L. Sims after which the remains were lain to rest in the Spring Hill Cemetery.



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