Lydia A. Shoemaker

1886 - 1915  (29 years)

• Name	Lydia A. Shoemaker
  Born	10 Jun 1886	Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA
  Gender	Female
  Name	Liddie
  Died	14 Dec 1915	Pontiac State Hospital, Oakland, Michigan
  	Lydia died of septicemia (blood infection following birth) and baby Carleton died of influenza according to the death certificates. There was a big flu epidemic that year in Detroit. Lydia's parents are also buried at Eastlawn cemetary, Detroit.
  Buried	Eastlawn cemetary, Detroit, MI, USA
  Person ID	I20468	Tofterå Slettemoen
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2024

  
  

  Father	Dilon Ewing "Dellie" Shoemaker,   b. 17 Aug 1865, Decatur, Indiana, USA ,   d. 2 Aug 1925, Morris, Grundy, Illinois  (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Orpha Lozetta McAfee,   b. 3 May 1868, Jefferson, Wells, Indiana ,   d. 18 Jul 1942, Riverside, CA, USA  (Age 74 years)
  Married	26 Nov 1885	Wells Co., IN
  Family ID	F7109	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charles Claude Casey,   b. 19 Mar 1884, Freetown, Jackson, Indiana, USA ,   d. 2 Feb 1952, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA  (Age 67 years)
  Married	1911	Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
  Children	1. Charles Claude Casey, Jr,   b. 21 Jul 1912, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA ,   d. 9 Dec 1970, Dearborn Heights, Wayne, MI  (Age 58 years)   2. Carlton Casey,   b. 30 Aug 1915, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA ,   d. 2 Dec 1915, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA  (Age 0 years)
  Last Modified	12 Feb 2009
  Family ID	F6609	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Charles, Lydia, Lois and baby Carlton Lydia with Charles (from left), Carlton and Eloise. Lydia and three month old Carlton both passed in December, 1915.

  
  

• Notes

  1900 census of Center township, Muncie city, Delaware Co., Indiana: Dilon Shoemaker and Orpha L Shoemaker. Census has Lydia born Jun 1885 (not 86) and younger sister Mary born Aug 1887. 1904 in Anderson, Indiana, 334 W 5th St. 1906 stenographer in Terre Haute living with her father and sister at 116 Gilbert Ave. 1910 census of Wabash Ward 2, Wabash, Indiana, has Lydia at home with her parents, now age 23, member of the United Methodist Church. 1910 census for Detroit Ward 5, Lydia is a boarder and stenographer at Wholesale Drug Co. 1910 City directory of Wabash Indiana, Lydia, Stenographer, 174 W Maple. At the Dec 14, 1915 death of Lydia in Pontiac State Hospital, Oakland county, Michigan parents are mentioned as D.E. Shoemaker and Orpha Macafee. She had been hospitalized for 21 days, sick for 28, and died of exhaustion and sepsis.