William Dela Shumate1

Male, #38281, (circa 1881 - )

Birth*circa 1881 William was born at Georgia circa 1881. William Dela Shumate was the son of Berryman Dela Shumate. Berryman was born 4 Apr 1849 in Cedartown, Polk Co., Georgia, died 11 May 1935 in Montezuma, Macon Co., GA, and was buried in the old Felton Cemetery, Montezuma, Georgia. He married (1) Mattie Burnam and had one daughter, and (2) Michael Horne on 7 Mar 1875 with whom he had 7 children. Berryman lived in Birmingham, AL and was one of the pioneer builders of the Ensley District of Birmingham, AL.
     Berryman was the son of Mason Pyron Shumate and Nancy Mangum. According to oral family history, a few years after the Civil War, Pyron Shumate died. The oldest son John Will Shumate, went away to Civil War and his mother took his siblings and left the Atlanta area for a safer place to live. She went to Montezuma, but when John came back from the service he didn't like the gnats/climate and moved to the Thomaston, Upson Co., GA area where he became the "father" of the Thomastonline. I assume that Pyron is probably buried somewhere in the Dekalb Co., GA or Polk Co., GA area. He was born in Dekalb Co., GA but his son Berryman D. Shumate was born in Cedartown, Polk Co., GA. Nancy is buried in the old Felton Cemetery in Montezuma, GA.
     Mason Pyron Shumate was the son of Berryman Dela Shumate and Thurza Farrar, both of whom died in Dekalb Co., GA.
     This elder Berryman Dela Shumate was the son of Mason Shumate and Nancy Gatewood, both of whom are buried in Decatur Cemetery, Decatur, Dekalb Co, GA. They were a pioneer family arriving in Dekalb Co., GA in 1824.2,3 
Marriage*circa 1904 He married Arlena M. Culpepper circa 1904.3 
1930 Census*1 Apr 1930 William was listed as the head of a family on the 1930 Census at Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Alabama.3 

Family

Arlena M. Culpepper (May 1881 - 17 May 1966)
Children

Last Edited 29 Jul 2006

Citations

  1. E-mail from Janet Smyly to Lew Griffin, 1999, 2000.
  2. E-mail from Frances Greene, e-mail address to Warren Culpepper, Feb-Jul 2006.
  3. 1930 Federal Census, United States.
    ED 96, Sheet 23B, Lines 57-64, 1720 28th St, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL (11 Apr 1930)
    Home=$3000, Radio=Y, Farm=N
    William W. Shumate, Head, M, Wh, 48, md@23, GA/GA/GA, Accountant/Steel Plant, Vet=No
    Lena Shumate, Wife, F, Wh, 46, md@21, GA/GA/GA
    Don W. Shumate, Son, M, Wh, 21, sng, AL/GA/GA
    Ann Shumate, Dau, F, Wh, 14, sng, AL/GA/GA
    Eleanor Shumate, Dau, F, Wh, 11, sng, AL/GA/GA
    Hudson W. Culpepper, (Father-in-law) Head, M, Wh, 74, md@22, GA/GA/GA
    Josie Culpepper, (Mother-in-law) Wife, F, Wh, 74, md@22, GA/GA/SC
    Frank Culpepper, (Brother-in-law) Son, M, Wh, 34, sng, AL/GA/GA.
  4. E-mail from Deanna Owen Shumate (#52349), e-mail address (as of June 2008), 8034 Rockhampton Circle, Helena, AL 35080 to Warren Culpepper, May 2005.
  5. E-mail from Deanna Owen Shumate (#52349), e-mail address (as of June 2008), 8034 Rockhampton Circle, Helena, AL 35080 to Warren Culpepper, May 2005.
    From Nancy Ridley.