U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Umbach, Augusta Custer (b. 1858) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Pages 486-487 Mrs. Augusta Umbach was born in Germany, daughter of John Custer, and in 1879 was married in Pittsburg to Henry Umbach, who died in 1892. Children, Theodore, Marie, Hilda, Edna and Nelly. She is a member of the Lutheran Church, and is proprietress of the Luzerne Hotel at Belington. She received her education in Germany and came to America in 1873. Six years ago she came to Belington, previous to which time she had been living on a farm. Four years ago she took charge of the Hotel Luzerne, after having lost heavily by investing in West Virginia coal lands. Her father was for twenty years overseer of a large estate in Germany, and she lost a brother in the Franco-Prussian War. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1900 Census, Barbour County, WV Barker District, Belington, ED:1, Sheets 19A-19B Lines 41-50 and 51-60, Enum-Dwelling 323, Enum-Family 329 UMBACH, Augusta (head) born July-1858, widow, Germany-Germany-Germany, Hotel Propriatress, 5-children/5-living Children (all born in Penna) Mary (Feb-1882); Hilda (Jan-1885); Edna (Mar-1887); Nellie (Oct-1889) There is one porter, and one servant, and 13 Boarders living in the hotel In the 1910 census, she is still in Belington as Hotel Keeper ED:2, Sheet 11A August is age 51. Daughters Edna (23) and Nellie (21) are will her. As is a niece, Lela Custer (age 15) In the 1920 census, she is living in Baltimore, MD ED:121, Sheet 4A Augusta is age 62, and living in the household of her son-in-law, Edward E. Correll, daughter Nellie's husband. Her daughter Edna, 31, is also there. In the 1930 census, she is again living in Baltimore, MD ED:4-443, Sheet 7B August is age 71, living with son-in-law and daugter - Edward and Nellie Correll, and their 10-yr-old dau, Carolyn. In the 1940 census, she is again living in Baltimore, MD ED:4-815, Sheet 10A August is age 81, living with son-in-law and daugter - Edward and Nellie Correll, and their 20-yr-old dau, Carolyn. ------------------------------------------------------------------- (father of Augusta Custer Umbach) From Death Register, Barbour County, WV (year 1904, Page 136, No. 914) FULL-NAME: John Custer BIRTH-PLACE: Germany DEATH-DATE: July 16, 1903 4:30a.m. - at age 83y-10m-13d DEATH-PLACE: Belington, W.Va. MARITAL-STATUS: married OCCUPATION: Farmer RESIDENT-IN-STATE: 12 years CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Senility BURIAL-PLACE: Belington, W.Va. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------