Where were the Bumgardners from?
Are you in
Idaho?
My great grandfather was Claude
Crocker. He died in 1962 in
California. My cousin claims his parents were Samuel and (Sarah)
Crocker and that Claude was born in
Salem,
Kansas and that the Samuel in Kamiah is his father but I can only find Samuel and Rachel in Kamiah in the 1900 census, no Sarah. That census indicates that Rachel was born in 1850 in
Illinois and that her parents were born in
Pennsylvania. There are no children listed with them. Claude was born in 1884 I think so he would have been 16 when the census was taken...that is if he were her son.
Claude is supposed to be a cousin to a Clayton
Steele Crocker (according to my cousin). Clayton is listed in 1910 as the son of
Loren Crocker and living in
Latah County,
Idaho, born in
Idaho and his father
Loren born in
Missouri.
When I look at some of the census records for the Crockers up in
Latah County, it does look like some lived in
Missouri, Washinton and then
Idaho but I don't have any proof they are related only my cousin's word.
She has some ages mixed up as well as she said that his mother (Sarah) was was in her 40's when Claude was born and the father in his 50's but if Samuel and Rachel were Claude's parents, then she would have only been 34 and he 38.
Of course then my grandmother, uncle and mother said Claude was adopted by the Crockers in
Kansas and that his real father was a man named
Atherton. Since my grandmother was married 5 times and lived in
Texas,
Idaho,
Washington,
California,
Oregon and
Colorado I don't know what to believe. She also claimed Claude was half indian, but her brothers and sisters said she was crazy and that they were all lies.
Claude was married to
Janetta Capwell in Kooskia,
Idaho (next to Kamiah) in 1910. Perhaps there were other Crocker's in the area. Perhaps the Crockers in
Latah County were related. Perhaps Samuel was his father. Perhaps he was adopted. Frankly I can find no record of him although I have photographs of the Crockers that I know are related.
What do you know about the Bumgardner's?
Here is some information from a post I recently read about Samuel
Crocker from a reliable source:
Samuel
Crocker was a charter member of the I.O.O.F
Lodge here in Kamiah around the turn of the century. the info here is from Book 1 of the
Lodge records.
Page 91. Sarah
Crocker died Aug 22 1902, buried at Kamiah.
(My note) The Cemetery at Kamiah was not established until Oct 1903, so we have no idea where she was buried
Page 192. Samuel
Crocker, died July 16 1904.
Page 193. Samuel was the first local lodge member to die.
Page 198. Brownstown Ill. lodge, sons paid for his funeral.
(My note) With the survey and establishment of the Cemetery in Oct 1903, it would be assured that Samuel is buried there. My listing, which is from several walkthroughs and revisions of older list do not show Samuel or Sarah's graves. It could be that they were buried on their own place if they lived on a farm or they could be among the Unknowns that are listed in various places in the cemetery.
This complicates the Samuel
Crocker and Rachel
Crocker in the 1900 census in Kamiah precint. Who is Sarah? Are they different
Samuels