William Simpson SHOEMAKER
1895 census Batavia, Jefferson, Iowa 1900 census Batavia, Jefferson, Iowa cemetery records
History of Jefferson County, Iowa, (pub. 1912) Vol II, page 67, reports "Nora Jane, who married W.S. Shoemaker of Ottumwa, Iowa." Old maps show Business Corners near Douds in Van Buren County and not Jefferson county 1930 census Omaha, doughlas, Nebraska
Source. Omaha, Nebraska, Newspaper Obituary dated November 1966 reporting death of brother Glen LaMar Shoemaker. Indicates Glen's sister Veva as being Mrs. Carl Dallin of Ottumwa, Iowa. 1900 census Batavia, Jefferson, Iowa
Source. Omaha, Nebraska, Newspaper Obituary dated November 1966 reporting death of brother Glen LaMar Shoemaker. Indicates Glen's sister Ava as being Mrs. W.E. Hartman of Fairfield, Iowa. 1900 census Batavia, Jefferson, Iowa birth date and place in birthday book of Inez Clark Rail Lived in Fairfield
Birth date and place provided by Glen's wife, Inez Elizabeth (Rail)(Shoemaker) Cornell. social Security death index
Source. Omaha, Nebraska, Newspaper Obituary dated November 1966 reporting death of brother Glen LaMar Shoemaker. Indicates Glen's sister Wilda as being Mrs. A. L. Young of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1900 census Batavia, Jefferson, Iowa 1930 census OklahomaCity, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Social Security death index
Middle name provided on data from daughter Donna. Lived in Sioux Falls, SD
He married Nora Jane Clark 1 Nov 1888 at Libertyville, Jefferson, Iowa . Nora Jane Clark was born at Business Corner, Van Buren, Iowa 13 Aug 1864 daughter of Julius Laughlin Clark and Emeline Moberry Carson .
They were the parents of 5
children:
Veva LaRue Shoemaker
born 9 Jun 1890.
Ava Dell Shoemaker
born 5 Mar 1892.
Glen LaMar Shoemaker
born 12 Jul 1894.
Wilda Norene Shoemaker
born 22 Jun 1897.
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William Simpson Shoemaker died 1 Feb 1920 at Ottumawa, Wapello, Iowa .
Nora Jane Clark died 17 Feb 1942 at Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa .