Notes:
Data source is Waynette Caldwell, e-mail alwaynet@winco.net (from a booklet by Martin L. Mumaw, Jr.)
Data source is Verta Mumaw Stott, 325 Jickory Dr., Genoa, IL 60135, or e-mail June Stott Kubasiak at junek@niu.edu
1930: Mayfield, Dekalb, Illinois
Cullen Mumaw 43
Mary Mumaw 40
Leo Mumaw 14
Lucile Mumaw 12
Thelma Mumaw 9
Verta Mumaw 6
Bonnie Mumaw 3
George E Clark 72, boarder
Obituary provided by Greg Tucker - gtt99@prodigy.net
[Rockford, Illinois, Morning Star, Tuesday, June 16, 1959:]
Car Hits Speeding Train; Driver Dies
SYCAMORE --- C. B. Mumaw, 72, 142 Mason court, was killed instantly Sunday night when his car rammed into the speeding City of Los Angeles passenger train at the Annie Glidden rd. crossing a mile and one-half west of Kingston and north of Illinois highway 72.
The 1942-model car hit the locomotive of the streamliner. Mumaw was flipped out of the auto. His body was found in a ditch about 100 feet from the crossing maintained by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad.
Authorities said Mumaw, a retired farmer from Mayfield area, DeKalb county, had visited his daughter in Kingston and was going home when the accident happened. The daughter is Mrs. Alfred Stott, Kingston.
Because two other trains were following the streamliner, authorities let all trains go through the accident scene as quickly as possible. Inquest in Mumaw's death was postponed until the train crew can come here to testify.
Mumaw's death was the fourth traffic fatality this year in DeKalb county compared with two at the same time last year.
Mumaw was born in Oden (sic), Ind., and began farming in the Mayfield area in 1930. He moved to Sycamore in 1945.
Surviving are a son, Leo, Sandwich; four daughters, Mrs. Thelma Sack, Surprise, Neb.; Mrs. Lucille Marshall, and Bonnie Mumaw, both of Sycamore; and Mrs. Scott, Kingston; and five brothers, including Dewey, DeKalb.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Mayfield Congregational church. Burial will be in Mayfield cemetery. Friends may call in th Coultrip funeral home, Sycamore, after 1 p.m. Tuesday.