General Information

Birth
1839
Arkansas
Death
JUN 1864
Burial
Wesley Cemetery, Washington County, Wesley, Arkansas

Notes

SHUMATE, William “Little Bill” – William Shumate was born about 1839 and was killed in June of 1864. He married Martha Elizabeth White, born September 11, 1848: died January 2, 1933, when she was about 15 years of age in 1863. She was a daughter of John S. White and Mary Ann Maloy. They had one daughter, Nancy Jane Shumate, who was but six weeks old when her father was killed in June, 1864 in Civil War fighting near Wesley, Arkansas, where he is buried. [WCHS Flashback Vol. 11, No. 1]

Parents

William Shumate
- Father
1813 - 1877
Birth
21 NOV 1813
Kentucky
Death
12 JAN 1877
Durham, Madison County, Arkansas
Sarah Sallie Ball
- Mother
1817 - 1901
Birth
22 DEC 1817
Kentucky
Death
12 MAR 1901
Durham, Madison County, Arkansas

Spouse

Martha Elizabeth White
- Wife
1848 - 1933
Birth
11 SEP 1848
Death
2 JAN 1933

Children