A163(13)
Sherman EVERINGHAM
"Doc"
b.12 Feb 1868 Iowa
d.27 Jul 1922 "Bright's disease"
(Obituary)
married:
Alma Clotilda RUF (b.Feb 1874 IL)
19 Dec 1894 in Chicago, Ill
d/o Joseph Ruf & Catherine Knoblock
after Doc died, Alma married: Milton Myers
parents:
William EVERINGHAM (b.1823)
Elizabeth SPROULS (b.1823)
children: EVERINGHAM
  1. William Avery (b.Oct 1895 IL)
siblings:
  1. James (b.1845)
  2. Mary Jane (b.1847)
  3. John (b.1848)
  4. Sarah Elizabeth (b.1851)
  5. William (b.1852)
  6. Margaret Ellen (b.1854)
  7. Jacob (b.1857)
  8. Martha Clarissa (b.1858)
  9. Andrew L. (b.1860)
  10. Marcia A. (b.1862)
  11. Clara Amanda (b.1864)
  12. Minnie Caroline (b.1866)
fact sources and writings about this individual: Research of Kevin Everingham

1885 State CENSUS, Utica, Chickasaw, Iowa.... William Everingham 61,.. Elizabeth 62,.. Jacob 28,.. Minne C. 18,.. Doc 16,... Maggie M. Hurley 12. (Maggie Hurley was the daughter of Doc's sister Mary Jane who died in 1878.)

1894 Wisconsin Marriage Registration ... Doc Everingham, s/o Wm. Everingham & Elizabeth Sprouls,... Alma Clotilda Ruf, d/o Joseph Ruf & Katherine Knobloch,.. m.19 Dec 1894 at Kenosha, Wisconsin.

1900 CENSUS, Chicago, Cook County, IL (enDist 408, sheet 11A, home 202) Doc Everingham, b.Feb 1868 IA, married 5 years, father b.CAN, mother b.IA.... Alma C., b.Feb 1874 IL, wife, parents b.Germany, mother of 1 child, 1 child living,... William, b.Oct 1895, son.

he was living in Michigan by 1909 (see photo below) & was back to Chicago by 1920:
1910 CENSUS of Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, MI, shows a "Doc Everingham" 42, b. Iowa., Alma M C, 36,.. William 14.

1910 CENSUS Chicago, Ward 14, Cook, IL... Richard F. Ruf 43, b.IL parents b.Germany, single,... Catherine Ruf 70, mother, married, b.Germany, immigrated to US in 1863,.. Emma Hoffman 47 b.IL, married, parents b.Germany. this census is listed here because it gives additional information about Alma's mother "Catherine Ruf" and the family immigration year. Plus, Alma's brother Richard F. Ruf, connects her to the 1920 and 1930 Census records below, and leads to Richard's death registration which gives his parents names.

1920 CENSUS West Twp, 47 precinct, Chicago, Cook, IL ... Richard F. Ruf 52 b.IL, single,... Doc Everingham 49, b.IA, brother-in-law, married,... Alma Everingham 47 b.IL, sister, married,... Williamson Everingham 23, b.IL, nephew, single.

1922 Doc died in 1922 (Obituary - New Hampton Gazette, Aug 9, 1922)... it appears that Alma remarried by the 1930 census:
1930 CENSUS Chicago (dist.1001-1250) Cook, IL (EnDist 1084, sheet 17B family 344) ... Milton Myers 62, b.NY, married,... Alma Myers 55, wife, b.IL, parents b.Germany,... Richard Ruf 63, single, brother-in-law,.. b.IL,.. parents b.Germany.

1931 Death Registration, Cook Co. IL.... Richard R. Ruf, 63, s/o Joseph Ruf & Catherine Knoblock d.3 Jan 1868 at Chicago, Cook, IL, father born in Greten, Germany, mother born in Germany.

1938 Death Registration, Cook Co. IL.... Alma Myers, 64, spouse: Ambrose, d/o Joseph Ruf, d.7 Nov 1938 at Chicago, Cook, IL.,... burial 9 Nov 1938 Waldheim Cem, Forest Park, Cook Ill.


Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, MI Clown baseball team 1909
Prominent Iron Mountain business and professional men who comprised the clown baseball team which played on July 4, 1909. Standing, left to right, are Charles Parent, William Cudlip, R.L. Hammond, Louis Will, Abe Sackim, John Calvi, Dr. H.D. Ripley, "Doc" Everingham, Bill Setterson and Dr. Herman Sturtz, seated, left to right, unidentified, Jay Cook, W.W. Thompson, Otto Arnold, V.P. Chappel and Joseph Dorn.


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