Husband: Frank CUMMINGS (5, 6, 7)
Birthdate: 1870/71
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
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Marriage date: 1885-1907
Marriage place: Schuylkill County, PA

Wife: Emily "Emma" PEIFFER (1, 4, 7, 9)
Birthdate: October 1875
Birthplace: Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA
Death date: 1908
Place of death: Schuylkill County, PA
Burial: Llewellyn Cemetery, Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA
Father: Isaac PEIFFER (1832-1906) (1, 3, 4, 6, 8)
Mother: Maria Lucy HAINES (1845-1881) (1, 3)
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Documentation:
  1. Llewellyn Cemetery, On-site visit 1991 by Dorothy, Harold, and Lester PINKERTON: Single low rectangular gray marble stone with the heading "PEIFFER" and beneath, "Isaac Died 1906, Lucy Died 1881"; To the right of the PEIFFER stone in the same plot is a single gray marble stone, "Emily CUMMINGS Died 1908".
  2. 1850 Federal Census Llewellyn, Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA: "John CUMMINGS, 35, Miner, born in Ireland; Mary 30, Ireland; Thomas 17, Ireland; Mary 13, Ireland; James, 10, Ireland; June 8, Ireland; Hugh 4, PA; Bridgett 1, PA."
  3. 1870 Federal Census Llewellyn, Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA: "Mary CUMMINGS, 45, Keeping house, Ireland; John 16, underground Laborer, born in PA; James, 14, Coal Breaker worker, born in PA."; "Isaac PEIFER, 37, Farm Laborer, $300, born in PA, Maria, wife, 25; Lavinia 4; William 2; James 1."
  4. 1880 Federal Census Llewellyn, Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA: "Isaac PEIFFER, 41, Farm Laborer, born in PA; Catherine, daughter 16, Keeping house; William, son 12; James, son 11; Emma, daughter 5."
  5. 1880 Federal Census Pottsville, Schuylkill County, PA: "Mary Cummings, 31, dress maker; Hugh Cummings, 38, brother, machinist; Frank 9, nephew, at school."
  6. Directory of the Eleventh Census of Schuylkill County, PA: Branch Township - "Isaac PEIFFER, 59, Laborer, Rebecca"; Pottsville, NW Ward - "Mary Ann CUMMINGS, tailoress, 825 Minersville Street, Hugh 50, machinist, Frank 19, teamster."
  7. Schuylkill County Marriage Docket, Schuylkill County Courthouse, Pottsville, PA: Book 7, Number A 1239, 1885-1910 Emily PIEFFER and Frank CUMMINGS."
  8. 1900 Federal Census Branch Township, Schuylkill COunty, PA: "Isaac PEIFFER, 68, Feb 1832; Rebecca, 62, Dec 1838, 5 children/three living."
  9. Family Oral History given in 1981 by the daughter of William Francis PEIFFER, Nellie PEIFFER PINKERTON (1889-1990): "Aunt Emily lived in Frackville. Lester (Pinkerton) has seashells that Emily collected at the Seashore on a visit to Dollie (Dorothy E. PEIFFER) at Ocean Grove. Dollie and I would go to visit her. She was a kind person. She had no children. When Dollie was a little girl, Emily made her a doll's dress, which Dollie always prized. It is pressed in the family Bible."

Notes:
  * Harold L. PINKERTON, Sr. genealogy source notebook "Isaac PEIFFER Family" contains a section on "Emily PEIFFER CUMMINGS".
  * Harold LeRoy PINKERTON, Sr. is a grandson of William Francis PEIFFER (1867-1929), the brother of Emily PEIFFER CUMMINGS.