Benjamin Franklin Woomer
(1843-1905)
Adaline Hain
(1844-1916)
Benjamin Franklin Beacher Sr.
(1845-1922)
Sarah Jane Jacobs
(1846-1886)
Isaiah Simpson Woomer
(1873-1905)
Angeline Caroline Beacher
(1874-1930)
Adeline G. Woomer
(1897-1957)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Gomer Jenkins Evans

2. Frederick John Felbinger

Adeline G. Woomer 1 2 3 4 5

  • Born: 25 Feb 1897, Shenandoah, Schuylkill, PA 1 3 4 6 7 8
  • Marriage (1): Gomer Jenkins Evans on 18 Nov 1916 in Wellsburg, Brooke, WV 1
  • Marriage (2): Frederick John Felbinger on 29 Mar 1924 in Luzerne, Luzerne, PA
  • Died: 20 Dec 1957, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA at age 60 4 8
  • Buried: 23 Dec 1957, Pittsburgh: Allegheny Cemetery, Allegheny, PA 4 8

   Another name for Adeline was Adeline Evans.6

   FamilySearch ID: 9C6N-G8M.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1900 in Shenandoah, Schuylkill, PA. 3 The 1900 census recorded renting at 237 Oak Street: Isaiah Worner [indexed wrong due to poor handwriting], colliery laborer, 27, born Jul 1873, living with wife Angeline, 23, Oct 1877; daughter Adeline, 3, Feb 1897; and son Benjamin F., 4 months old, born Jan 1900. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania. The couple was married for 3 years and Angeline had birthed 2 children.

2. Residence: 575 Hawkins Ave., North Braddock, PA on 21 Feb 1908 in North Braddock, Allegheny, PA. 9

3. Census in 1910 in Chartiers, Allegheny, PA. 7 The 1910 census recorded Adaline Woomer, 14, servant, living in the home of Charles Blackburn, 42, and his wife Caroline, 36. The Blackburns were born in Ohio; Adaline was born in Pennsylvania.

4. Census in 1920 in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, PA. 10 The 1920 census recorded at 65 Seneca Street: Reese J. Evans, fireboss in coal mine, 53, living with wife Gwen, 47; daughter Bessie, 20; daughter-in-law Adeline Evans, widow, 23, and granddaughter Olwen, 1 year 6 months when the census was recorded on on 13 Jan 1920. Reese, Gwen, and Bessie were born in Wales as were their parents. Adeline and Olwen and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

5. Occupation: domestic servant living at 138 Holland Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA on 28 Mar 1924 in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, PA. 6

6. Census in 1930 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. 11 The 1930 census recorded renting at 4049 Geneva Street: Fred Felbinger, railroad laborer, 37, living with wife Adeline, 33; Olwen Felbinger, 11; and George Felbinger, 11. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

7. Census in 1940 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. 12 The 1940 census recorded renting at 40441 Geneva Street: Fred J. Felbinger, handyman for steam railway, 47, living with wife Adeline, 43, and son George, bookkeeper for newspaper, 21. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

8. Cause of Death: Adeline died at Doctor's Hospital from acute cardiac failure due to acute nephritis, hypertension, 20 Dec 1957, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. 4

9. Obituary: on 20 Dec 1957 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. Adeline Woomer was born 25 Feb 1897 in Shenandoah, Pa., the daughter of Isiah Simpson Woomer (1873-1905) and Angeline Caroline Beacher (1874-1930). When she was 8 years old, her father was asphyxiated by leaking gas at the Edgar Thomson blast furnaces where he worked. Her mother sent her 4 children to an orphanage and in the 1910 census Adaline Woomer, 14, servant, was living in the home of Charles Blackburn, 42, and his wife Caroline, 36. She married Gomer Jenkins Evans (1892-1918) in Wellsburg, WV in 1916, but he was killed in action during World War I on 23 Jan 1918, just before the birth of their daughter, Alwyn Elizabeth Evans, on 10 Jul 1918 in Pittsburgh. On 29 Mar 1924 Adeline married Frederick J. Felbinger (1893-1972) and they had one son, George Paul Felbinger (1918-2003). Adeline died at age 60 on 20 Dec 1957 in Pittsburgh at Doctor's Hospital from acute cardiac failure due to acute nephritis, hypertension. On 23 Dec 1957 she was buried at Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh.

10. Residence: 4049 Geneva St., Pittsburgh, Pa. On 20 Dec 1957 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. 4

11. Obituary: Written by Jonathan Scott Beacher Adeline Woomer was born 25 Feb 1897 in Shenandoah, Pa., the daughter of Isiah Simpson Woomer (1873-1905) and Angeline Caroline Beacher (1874-1930). When she was 8 years old, her father was asphyxiated by leaking gas at the Edgar Thomson blast furnaces where he worked, dying on 22 Apr 1905. Adeline's mother sent her 4 children to an orphanage and in the 1910 census Adaline Woomer, 14, servant, was living in the home of Charles Blackburn, 42, and his wife Caroline, 36. In 1916 she married Gomer Jenkins Evans (1892-1918) in Wellsburg, WV, but he was killed in action during World War I on 23 Jan 1918, just before the birth of their daughter, Alwyn Elizabeth Evans, on 10 Jul 1918 in Pittsburgh. On 29 Mar 1924 Adeline married Frederick J. Felbinger (1893-1972) and they had one son, George Paul Felbinger (1918-2003). Adeline died at age 60 on 20 Dec 1957 in Pittsburgh at Doctor's Hospital from acute cardiac failure due to acute nephritis, hypertension. On 23 Dec 1957 she was buried at Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh.

12. Obituary: Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph on 21 Dec 1957 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. 13 FELBINGER -- Friday morning Adeline Woomer, wife of Fred J. Felbinger of 4049 Geneva St., mother of Olwen E. Evans and George P. Felbinger; sister of Lillian Woomer, Evelyn May McCunn, Florence Purbaugh and Dorothy Jones. Funeral services at McCabe Bros. Funeral Home. 5300 Penn Ave. Monday, Dec. 23 at 2 p.m.


Adeline married Gomer Jenkins Evans, son of Reese John Evans and Gwenllian Jenkins, on 18 Nov 1916 in Wellsburg, Brooke, WV.1 (Gomer Jenkins Evans was born on 12 Nov 1892 in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, PA,1 2 14 15 died on 23 Jan 1918 in Yorktown, York, VA 10 15 16 17 and was buried in Hanover Green, Luzerne, PA 15.)


Adeline next married Frederick John Felbinger, son of John K. Felbinger Sr. and Margaretta Zamkel, on 29 Mar 1924 in Luzerne, Luzerne, PA. (Frederick John Felbinger was born on 11 Apr 1893 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA,6 18 died on 12 Jan 1972 in Bridgeville, Allegheny, PA 18 and was buried in Pittsburgh: Allegheny Cemetery, Allegheny, PA 18.)


Sources


1 West Virginia Division of Culture and History (Vital Records search. http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/ .), Marriage of Gomer Jenkins Evans, age 24, born Wilkes-Barre, living in Pittsburgh, PA, to Adeline Woomer, 21, born Shenandoah, PA, living in Pittsburgh, PA.

2 Beacher, Bruce Franklin, Beau-Chere, The Beacher Family Newsletter, 1 Mar 1979.

3 1900 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M347-DLS Isaiah Worner, Shenandoah borough Ward 4, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 6A, family 87, NARA microfilm publication T623, FHL microfilm 1241484.

4 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1971 (Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates. Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.), Death Certificate 107694. Adeline Felbinger. Father Isaac Woomer. Mother Angeline Beacher.

5 Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 10 Sep 1930, page 31. Obituary of Angeline Gray.

6 FamilySearch.org, Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885 - 1950, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KHFR-Z2C Isia Woomer in entry for Fred J Felbinger and Adeline Evans, 1924.

7 1910 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MGQ3-KCZ Adaline Woomer in household of Charles Blackburn, Chartiers, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 40, sheet 1A, family 6.

8 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46542960.

9 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, Birth Records, 1906-1909 (Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Birth certificates, 1906–1909. Series 11.89 (50 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.), Herbert Woomer, b. 21 Feb 1908, father Isiah Woomer deceased, mother Angeline Beacher.

10 1920 United States Census, Year: 1920; Census Place: Wilkes-Barre Ward 14, Luzerne, Pennsylvania; Roll: T625_1597; Page: 21B; Enumeration District: 259; Image: 1155.

11 1930 United States Census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1974; Page: 28A; Enumeration District: 0141; Image: 832.0; FHL microfilm: 2341708.

12 1940 United States Census, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQN1-VY2.

13 Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph (Pittsburgh, PA), 2s Dec 1957, page 27.

14 United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K6KF-67X Gomer Evans, 1917-1918; citing Pittsburgh City no 1, Pennsylvania, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509.

15 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=177798584.

16 Ancestry.com, U.S., Navy Casualties Books, 1776-1941, Online image 260. Evans, Gomer Jenkins.

17 Ancestry.com, U.S., Navy Casualites Books, 1776-1941, Gomer Jenkins Evans, d. 23 Jan 1918.

18 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46542964.



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