Descendants Clement Corbin » Albert Shumway (1831-1905)

Personal data Albert Shumway 

• He was born on December 17, 1831 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA.Sources 2, 6, 8

  (G.S.I.)

• Resident:
• in the year 1850: Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA.Source 7
• in the year 1880: Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA.Source 5
• in the year 1860: Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA.Source 1
• Census in the year 1870, Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA.Source 9
• He died on November 10, 1905 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA, he was 73 years old.Source 6

  (G.S.I.)

• He is buried in North Grosvenor Dale, Windham, Connecticut, USA.Source 6

  Albert Shumway
  Birth 17 Dec 1831
  Death 10 Nov 1905 (aged 73)
  Burial
  Upham Cemetery
  North Grosvenor Dale, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
  Memorial ID 12476519

  Upham Cemetery, aka Cortiss Cemetery)

Household of Albert Shumway

(1) He is married to Dolly Frances Corbin.

They got married on April 28, 1850 at Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA, he was 18 years old.Sources 3, 6

Event (Children): No issue.Source 3

Notes about Albert Shumway

October r 2016
Hello Ms. Hamilton:
My name is ILANA PRATT. I live in Bethel, CT. I have been doing some research on the ownership of my mother's family's farm in Thompson CT. In 1922, my grandparents, Karol and Maria Kapitulik, who had emigrated from Slovakia 20 years before, bought a 95-acre farm in North Grosvenor Dale (Thompson) CT.
The seller was E. Herbert Cortiss, but the deed stated that the property was widely known as the Albert Shumway farm. My Uncle Joseph Kapitulik bought the farm from his widowed mother, Maria, sometime in the 1940s. His daughter, Gloria Kapitulik Fogarty, owns the property now. A member of the Kapitulik family has owned it for 94 years.
I set out to trace when Albert Shumway would have owned the farm. I consulted U.S. Census and other records to get information. I had help from members of the Thompson CT Historical Society, who sent me maps from 1856 and 1869 with the name CORBIN in the farm's location.
With the help of your extensive family tree, I learned that Elijah CORBIN Sr. lived in Thompson in 1747 when he was 9 years old. He married Elizabeth Prince there in 1765. Can I assume that these were the first Corbins to live in Thompson? Would Elijah have farmed what became the Albert Shumway property?
Ilana Pratt

October 28, 2016
Hello Ms. Hamilton: This is my second page of questions. My cousin Gloria does not know when the farm that she grew up on was built. We have many pictures showing parts of the old farmhouse, which was later torn down. But we can't say for sure when the house and various barns were built. Gloria had heard years ago that the original owner was "the sheriff of Windham County." I haven't found anything to back that up. Your family tree tells me that Schuyler CORBIN and his wife, Rebecca, lost several small sons in their marriage. Dolly appears to have been their oldest child. Albert Shumway married Dolly in 1856. His father had a large farm, but an older brother inherited that property. Albert got some money in the will. In the 1860 U.S. Census, Albert is a laborer living with Dolly and her aunt Lucy CORBIN. By 1870, he is a farmer, and in 1880, he is a living on a farm with his father-in-law Schuyler.
Ilana Pratt

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