Martha Edwina Cullum

Brief Life History of Martha Edwina

When Martha Edwina Cullum was born on 27 December 1867, in Missouri, United States, her father, Hodges Claborne Cullum, was 23 and her mother, Matilda C Beard, was 23. She married Samuel Noah Crooks on 1 March 1890, in Putnam, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Union Township, Putnam, Missouri, United States in 1940 and Unionville, Putnam, Missouri, United States in 1950. She died on 28 October 1961, in Putnam, Missouri, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Unionville Cemetery, Unionville, Putnam, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Noah Crooks
1868–1945
Martha Edwina Cullum
1867–1961
Marriage: 1 March 1890
Alta Lenora Crooks
1896–1962
Fay Marie Crooks
1898–1995

Sources (13)

  • Edwinu Crooks, "United States Census, 1950"
  • Martha Edwinnie Cullum Crooks, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Edwinie Cullum in entry for Noah Crooks, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"

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1868 · The Fourteenth Amendment

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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

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Name Meaning

English: habitational name, in part from places in Oxfordshire and Berkshire called Culham, or from Colham Green in Middlesex. The first is named with an Old English personal name Cūla + hamm ‘river meadow’; the Berkshire name is from Old English cyln ‘kiln’ + Old English hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘river meadow’; and the Middlesex name is from the Old English personal name Cola + hamm ‘river meadow’.

Scottish: possibly a shortened form of McCollum .

English: variant of Colomb 2.

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

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