Charles Tremner Cumming

Brief Life History of Charles Tremner

from the Carnegie-Stout Library web site, through the Dubuque, Telegraph-Herald, Thursday, February 11, 1954, page 13. Oelwein, Ia. __ Funeral services for Charles A. Cummings, 86, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Hintz Funeral Home. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. Mr. Cummings, a retired railway carpenter, died at Mercy Hospital Wednesday morning. He was born March 17, 1867, at Hawkeye, Ia., and resided at Oelwein the past 45 years. Survivors are a son, Charles of Webster City, Ia., three daughters, Mrs. Leslie Swarts, of Oelwein and Mrs. Leo O'Day and Mrs. Richard Ellis, of Dubuque, and two sisters, Mrs. Orlie Vermillion and Mrs. Hulda Ives of Lone Beach Calif. Memorial #116712352

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Charles Tremner Cumming
1867–1954
Ada L. Comer
1878–1921
Marriage: 24 December 1903
Dorothy Virginia Cummings
1905–1981
Gladys Letha Cummings
1906–1983
Lucile Mary Cummings
1909–1997
Charles W Cummings
1915–1974

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  • Charles T Cummings, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Charles T Cummings - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Charles T Cummings
  • Chas. T. Cummings, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"

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Name Meaning

Scottish (of Norman origin): most probably a habitational name from Bosc-Benard-Commin in Eure, France. This place lies on the edge of the Forêt de Rouvray, near Rouen, in the heart of the district from which came numerous Domesday barons, and so is much more likely to be the source of the name than Comines in Nord. The name is also possibly derived from the personal name Cumin, which is found in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire in the 12th and 13th centuries and may be of Breton origin, according to Reaney. Compare Old Breton Cunmin, which also appears as Cumin, and is from con- ‘hound’ with an uncertain second element, perhaps the min ‘edge’ which is found in other personal names.

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cuimín (or Ó Cuimín) ‘son (or ‘descendant’) of Cuimín’, a personal name formed from a diminutive of cam ‘crooked’. There was a 7th-century abbot of Iona named Cumin. In Scotland, this Irish surname became confused with the Norman name.

History: A notable bearer of the Norman surname is Wilhelmus Comyn, Bishop of Durham, who came north to Scotland with King David I in 1124 and was appointed Chancellor of Scotland. He established his nephew Richard in Tynedale and Roxburghshire, and Richard also rose to be Chancellor of Scotland. The Comyn or Cumming family gained the earldoms of Buchan and Menteith and rose to be the most powerful noble family in Scotland in the century before the rise of King Robert Bruce.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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