Charles Smith

Harry + Eleanor P. Plummer. Eleanor (daughter of Emory G. Plummer and Mary Edna DeVore) was born about 1916 in Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland; died on 9 Aug 1964 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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FROSTBURG — Mrs. Eleanor P. Smith, 48, died yesterday at Cleveland (Ohio) Clinic where she was a patient one month. She had been in ill health for four years. Born in Frostburg, she was a daughter of Mrs. Edna (DeVore) Plummer, here, and the late Emory Plummer, and the widow of James 0. Smith who died last January 7. She was a member of the Methodist Church. Surviving are five sons, James, Charles, Henry and Martin Smith, all of Cleveland, and Donald Smith with the State Police at Hagerstown; a daughter Mrs. Edward Rodgers, Detroit; three sisters, Mrs. George Buckalew, Mrs. Manuel Diaz, Frostburg, and Mrs. John Moody, McKeesport; three brothers, Howard and Wayne Plummer, Frostburg, Alden Plummer, Cumberland, and nine grandchildren. The body is at the Durst Funeral Home where friends will be received today from 7 to 9 p. m. and tomorrow from 2 until 4 p. m. and 7 until 9 p. m. The Cumberland Evening Times, August 10, 1964

Emory + Mary Edna DeVore. Mary (daughter of Johnson Collins Sr. Devore and Aurelia (Rella) Crowe) was born on 11 Aug 1893; died in Jul 1987. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Feb. 20 - Johnson C. Devore, 75, retired coal miner, died at 9 p.m., yesterday, at his home in Grahamtown, after an illness of two months. He was a member of First Methodist Church. Surviving are his wife, the former Orella[sic] Crowe, and eleven children, Mrs. Edith Crowe, Detmold; Mrs. Ernest Plummer, Mrs. Emery Plummer, Mrs. James Taylor, Mrs. John Tomlinson, Dewey, Leonard and Victor Devore, Grahamtown, and Roy and Johnson Devore and Mrs. John Wolfe, Frostburg. He was a brother of Ellsworth Devore, Mystic, Iowa; Frank Devore, Terra Alta, and Mrs. Lucy Devore, Mt. Savage. He had thirty-three grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Cumberland Evening Times, February 20, 1941

Johnson + Aurelia (Rella) Crowe. Aurelia (daughter of Nelson Crowe and Mary Ann Winebrenner) was born about 1872 in Maryland; died on 29 Mar 1951 in Eckhart, Allegany Co., Maryland.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Charges brought by her mother, Mrs. Aurelia Devore, that she had taken advantage of her father, Johnson C. Devore, during his last illness to prevail upon him to substitute herself in the stead of her mother as beneflciary under a $2,000 life insurance policy were flatly denied by Mrs. Mary Edna Plummer in an answer filed this morning to the bill of complaint lodged a few days ago by Mrs. Devore. Mrs. Plummer makes the counter charge that her mother deserted her husband more than eighteen months before his death and that she had exercised cruel and indifferent treatment towards him for the several years antedating his death. During the last year and a half of his life, Mrs. Plummer claims that her father lived alone and that she cooked for him and otherwise tended his needs during that time. She denies that at any time before his death was her father incapable of executing a valid deed of contract and taking care of all ordinary business transactions. Mrs. Plummer claims that her father made her the beneficiary of his life insurance policy "because of her considerate kindness and attention to him in the sunset of his life." Out of the face value of the policy, she said she paid bills incident to her father's last illness and funeral amounting to $477.98. Mrs. Plummer's answer was filed by Morgan C. Harris, attorney. The Cumberland Evening Times, April 8, 1941

ECKHART — Mrs. Rella DeVore, 80, widow of Johnson DeVore, died yesterday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Wolfe. She was a member, of First Methodist Church. Besides Mrs. Wolfe, she is survived by four other daughters, Mrs. Edna Plummer, Mrs. Ora Tomlinson, Mrs. Delilah Plummer and Mrs. Mildred Taylor, all of Frostburg; five sons, Roy and Victor DeVore: both of Frostburg; Johnson DeVore Eckhart; Dewey DeVore, of Hoffman, and Leonard DeVore, Detroit; sister, Mrs. Molly Hawkins, Akron; 31 grandchildren, and 33 great-grandchildren. Services will be conducted Sunday at 1:30 p. m. in Eckhart Methodist Church. Officiating will be Rev. Wilbur Gross, pastor, and Rev. John Bayley Clones, pastor of First Methodist Church, Frostburg. Interment will be in Frostburg Memorial Park. The Cumberland Evening Times, March 30, 1951