Gladys Theo CUMMINS

Father: Byron Edgar CUMMINS
Mother: Ella Viola GREEN 

                                                   _Adin Drake CUMMINS_____
                        _Jeptha CUMMINS __________|
                       |                          |_Mercy SKINNER__________
 _Byron Edgar CUMMINS _|
|                      |                           _John Heaton DICKERSON _
|                      |_Phoebe Heaton DICKERSON _|
|                                                 |_Margaret HOWDER _______
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|--Gladys Theo CUMMINS
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|_Ella Viola GREEN_____|
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Notes

Updated September 12, 2025. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1900 United States Census for Michigan, Shiawassee Co., Perry Twp., Perry Village: Supervisor's District 8; Enumeration District 94; Sheet 14A-14B; June 5, 1900.

Gladys CUMMINS is the daughter of Byron and Ella CUMMINS. She was born in September 1896 in Michigan and is 3 years old.

(2) 1910 United States Census for Michigan, Shiawassee Co., Perry Twp.: Supervisor's District 8; Enumeration District 45; Sheet 1B, April 15-16, 1910.

Gladys T. CUMMINS is the daughter of Byron and Ella V. CUMMINS. She is 13 years old, born in Michigan and is attending school.

(3) 1920 United States Census for Michigan, Shiawassee Co., Perry Twp., Perry Village: Supervisor's District 8; Enumeration District 249; Sheet 6B; January 15, 1920.

Gladys CUMMINS is the daughter of Bide and Ella CUMMINS. She is 23 years old, born in Michigan and is high school teacher.

(4) Obituary via Newspapers.com: Lansing State Journal; Lansing, Michigan; Mon, Sep 2, 1940; Page 6

"PERRY, Sept. 2 -- Funeral services for Miss Gladys CUMMINS, 43, were to be held Monday afternoon from the Baptist church at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Mr. E. A. COLTRIN of Lansing, former pastor of the church, was to officiate, assisted by the Rev. Mr. J. W. JOHNSON, the pastor. Burial was to be made in Roselawn Cemetery. She died Friday afternoon at the Hurley Hospital at Flint where she was taken a week ago Sunday and had continuously grown weaker. The cause of her death was a tumor of the brain. Miss CUMMINS had been one of Perry's well liked and popular young women. She had been a teacher of the Owosso and the Flint schools for around 21 years. She was to return to the Flint schools next Tuesday for the coming year. She was much interested in the Girl Scout movement in the city. Miss CUMMINS was born in Perry September 27, 1896, the daughter of the late Byron CUMMINS and Miss Ella CUMMINS of this place. She attended the Perry school and graduated in the year 1917. She then went to the State Normal at Mt. Pleasant for two years and had returned at various times for a summer course. She also attended Columbia university in New York for one summer. Surviving besides the aged mother, Mrs. Ella CUMMINS, there is one sister, Mrs. Fred KLUNZINGER of Mt. Pleasant."

(5) Cummins, Nora B. The History and Genealogy of the Cummins Family Their Ancestors, Descendants and Experiences. Seattle, Washington, United States, Self Published, 1958. Page 17.

- "Gladys Theo was born September 28, 1898 and died August 30, 1940. She taught school in Owosso for eight years and in Flint, Michigan for fourteen years."
- "born in Perry, Michigan"