Evelyn May Woomer ^{3 4}

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  Noted events in her life were:

1. Residence: 575 Hawkins Ave., North Braddock, PA on 21 Feb 1908 in North Braddock, Allegheny, PA. ⁸

2. Census in 1910 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ⁵ The 1910 census recorded at the Protestant Orphanage of Pittsburgh on Pennsylvania Avenue: May Woomer, orphan, 9; and Frank Woomer, orphan, 11. They were born in Pennsylvania.

3. Widow Angeline Gray is with 4 of her children. Census in 1920 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ^{9 10} The 1920 census recorded at 267 West Ohio Street: Mrs. Henry Gray, widow, occupation kitchenwork tea room, 38, living with daughters Florence, 5; Dorothy, 4; and children by her first marriage: May Woomer, 16; and Frank Woomer, 18. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

4. Newspaper: Pittsburgh Press: Marriage Licenses: Theodore R. McFarland, Pittsburgh, May E. Woomer, Pittsburgh, 5 Nov 1921, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ¹

5. Census in 1930 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ¹¹ The 1930 census recorded at 701 E. Ohio Street: May McFarland, restaurant waitress, 28, as one of four lodgers in a home rented for $30 by Minerva Kane, 43, a solicitor for a furnance repair company. Both ladies were married, May's column saying she married at age 18, and they and their parents were born in Pennsylvania. Minerva's other three lodgers were all single men: Martin Curley, 40; Edward Schuler, 59; and Charles Hondphil, 37.

6. Residence: 914 Federal St., Pittsburgh, PA on 4 Jan 1939 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ¹²

7. Census in 1940 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ¹³ The 1940 census recorded renting at 1226 Sherman Avenue: Quincy Floyd McCunn, railroad brakeman, 48, living with wife Evelyn May, 37, and daugther Emma Jane, 25 (who by her age must have been born of Quincy's first wife). Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

8. Census in 1950 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ¹⁴ The 1950 census recorded at 4213 Penn Avenue, rear 2nd floor, Quincy F. McCunn, railroad brakeman, 58, living with wife Evelyn May McCunn, 47. They were born in Pennsylvania.

9. Residence: 4213 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA on 1 Jun 1955 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ⁴

10. Obituary: Pittsburgh Press on 11 Nov 1987 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ⁷ McCUNN On Sunday, Nov. 1987, Evelyn M.; wife of the late Quincey F. McCunn; sister of Lillian Woomer, Florence Purbaugh and Dorothy Jones; no visitations. Service & Interment private. Arrangements by CHARLES T. GRIFFIN FUNERAL HOME.

11. Obituary: Evelyn May Woomer was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, on 23 Oct 1901, the daughter of Isaiah Simpson Woomer (1873-1905) and Angeline Caroline Beacher (1874-1930). In 1903 the family moved to Pittsburgh. When she was 3 years old her father was asphyxiated in a tunnel at the blast furnance where he worked. She and her brother Frank were in the Protestant Orphanage of Pittsburgh in the 1910 census while her mother was living without children with her 2nd husband Frederick Raymond Gray (1886-1918) who died of pneumonia. In 1920 the widow Angeline Gray was living with 4 children: May Woomer, 16, Benajmin Franklin "Frank" Woomer, 18, Florence Gray, 5, and Dorothy Gray, 4. (Her other children were daughter Adeline Woomer (1897-1957) living in 1920 with her husband Gomer Evans, and daughter Lillian Woomer (1905-1988) who spent her life at the State institution for Feeble-Minded in Polk, PA.) On 5 Nov 1921 Evelyn May married Theodore R. McFarland (1900-1939) who died of tuberculosis in January. On 8 Jul 1939 Evelyn May married Quincy Floyd McCunn (1890-1961). She died on 8 Nov 1987 in Pittsburgh and was buried in Allegheny Cemetery. Evelyn May appears to have no children per her 1930-1950 census records.
==Written by Jonathan Scott Beacher, her 1st cousin once removed==.

Evelyn married Theodore R. McFarland, son of John Henry McFarland and Martha Delphine Hight, on 5 Nov 1921 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA.¹ The marriage ended in divorce. (Theodore R. McFarland was born on 8 Jul 1900 in Mapletown, Greene, PA, United States,¹⁵ died on 4 Jan 1939 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA ¹² and was buried on 6 Jan 1939.)

Evelyn next married Quincy Floyd McCunn, son of Mark Calvin McCunn and Elizabeth Cordelia Deyarim, on 8 Jul 1939 in Trumbull, Ohio, United States.² (Quincy Floyd McCunn was born on 18 May 1890 in Indiana, Indiana, PA,¹³ died on 10 Nov 1961 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA ^{13 16} and was buried on 13 Nov 1961 in Pittsburgh: Allegheny Cemetery, Allegheny, PA ^{13 16}.)