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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. MAUDE ESTELLE SHUMWAY: Birth: 3 May 1882 in Boulder, Colo.. Death: 22 Feb 1965 in Alhambra, Calif.

  2. MARY ELIZABETH SHUMWAY: Birth: 27 Sep 1884 in Boulder, Colo.. Death: 18 Dec 1884 in Boulder, Colo.

  3. HELEN GRACE SHUMWAY: Birth: 3 Jun 1887 in Boulder, Colo.. Death: 18 Oct 1887 in Boulder, Colo.

  4. LORENA BLANCHE SHUMWAY: Birth: 20 Nov 1888 in Ward, Colo.. Death: Feb 1919 in Boulder, Colo.

  5. NELLIE GENEVIEVE SHUMWAY: Birth: 9 Apr 1894 in Boulder, Colo.. Death: Jun 1982 in Pasadena, Calif


Sources
1. Title:   Boulder (Colorado) Genealogical Society
2. Title:   Boulder County Pioneers
Author:   Jennie Stewart and D.A.R (1947)
3. Title:   Boulder County Pioneer and Fourth of July Committee interview, 1933

Notes
a. Note:   Mary Ann married Jack Sibbit and had three children; Frank B., born Aug 23, 1874, Mary A., born Feb 24, 1875, both of whom died young,
 and Lou Roy born Nov. 27,1875.
  Jack died in 1877 and in 1879, Mary Ann migrated to Colorado with her
 parents, brothers and young son, settling in Boulder. She married
 widower, Henry Addison Shumway in 1881, and they lived at Ward and
 Jamestown where Henry mined. About 1884,they established their home in
 Left Hand Canyon above Boulder, and lived there the rest of their
 lives.
  Mary Ann was well known and liked by the Indians in the early days,
 and was one of the few people who could cross Indian territory
 unharmed. It was told that, while crossing indian territory near
 Grand Junction, Colorado, the stagecoach in which she was riding was
 surrounded by indians but when they found that Mrs.Shumway was in the
 stagecoach, they let it pass unharmed. At her mountain home, she often
 prepared big meals for passing Indians.
  She was a charter member of the First Christian Church of Boulder and
 was active in its early history but later became a member of the
 Seventh Day Adventist Church.
 

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