Captain Robert Irving Cummings

1916 - 1988  (71 years)

• Name	Robert Irving Cummings
  Prefix	Captain
  Birth	6 Jun 1916	Warren, Warren, Pennsylvania   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 May 1988	Sequim, Clallam, Washington   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I13883	Scudder
  Last Modified	1 Oct 2017

  
  

  Family	Esther Pauline Slagle,   b. 6 Apr 1918, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio d. 13 Jul 1971, Arlington, Tarrant, Texas (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	1 May 1935	Scriba, Oswego, New York
  Children	1. R.J. Cummings   2. A.M. Cummings   3. R.I. Cummings
  Family ID	F4777	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Robert lied about his age to join the Army when he was 17. He made a career of the Army and retired as a Captain. He later worked as a Seattle policeman and became a Lieutenant before retirement. He and his first wife, Esther, divorced in 1946 and gave up the two youngest boys for adoption. Alfred changed his last name to Frederick Schutt in 1948, and Robert II became Robert Alvin Kullgren in 1946. All three of the boys found each other and reunited in 1995 on the very plot of land they were taken from. Peggy, Robert's daughter from his second marriage, met her three half-brothers at the reunion. When Robert died in 1988, his ashes were spread over the Olympia Mountains of Washington, his favorite place.

  
  

• Sources

  [S244] U.S. Social Security Death Index. [S476] International Genealogical Index (R). [S244] U.S. Social Security Death Index, SSN: 134-01-5242.