Notes:
Data source is Fred Fisher. E-mail gwinger@optelnow.net
His son's death certificate indicates that the mother was Sarah Loop. Sarah must have also been called "Nellie".The information, however, was provided by a Mrs. Nellie E. Mumma who was living in Butler Co., OH.
1930: West Milton, Miami, Ohio, USA
146 South Miami Street.
Rose Chenoweth, head, 42Head
Rose E Chenoweth, wife, 57Wife
William C Mumma, son, 26, b: OH/OH/OH
Nellie E Mumma, Daughter-in-law, 22, b: OH/OH/OH
William R Mumma, Grandson, grandson, b: OH/OH/OH
Harrisonburg VA Daily News Record, Wednesday, January 6, 1937:
CORONER SAYS OHIO WOMAN IS SUICIDE
DAYTON, O., Jan. 5. (AP) --- Coroner H. W. Harris recorded as a murder-suicide the shotgun-shooting of 30-year-old Mrs. Eva Gould Mumma and the death a short while later of her estranged husband, Carl, 33.
Mrs. Mumma, a hotel waitress, was killed in her home late Saturday night as she played three-handed bridge with Mr. and Mrs. William Tyler.
Tyler told police Mumma had come to the house, asked to speak to his wife, and remained for a while watching them at the card-table. The charge which killed Mrs. Mumma was fired through a closed window from her front porch steps.
Tyler said he summoned an ambulance and that its arrival a few minutes later was marked by a second shotgun blast that led to finding Mumma's body in a neighbor's yard.
Funeral plans were delayed pending the arrival from Detroit of four of the woman's six brothers.
Ohio Death Certificate
name: William Carl Mumma
event: Death, event date: 03 Jan 1937
event place: Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH:
street address: 638 Forest Ave.
gender: Male
death age: 33y 9m 2d
marital status: Married, race: White
occupation: WPA Worker
birth date: 01 Apr 1903, birthplace: Dayton, Ohio
burial date: 06 Jan 1937
burial place: W. Milton, O.
father: Harry C. Mumma, father's birthplace: Trotwood, Ohio
mother: Rosa Arnold, mother's birthplace: W. Milton, Ohio
spouse: Eva