Caesar Cummings
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Caesar Cummings (1872 - 1942)

Caesar Cummings
Born in Tulare, California, United Statesmap
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Died at age 69 in Ukiah, Mendocino, California, United Statesmap
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Biography

Caesar Cummings was born December 11, 1872 in Tulare, California, United States. He was a son of Noah Cummings and Amanda Parker.[1]

Caesar and his brother John leased a ranch from an old man name T. C. Narramore in Riverside, California. They failed to make the monthly rents and became indebted to him. As he was being paid the two brother along with another man tied him up and stuck him in the head with a club which caused him to die two hours later.[2]

Caesar was received October 3, 1895 at San Quentin Prison, in San Quentin, California for 1st degree murder of T. C. Narramore and sentenced to death.[3][4] He was prisoner number 16507.[3]

On January 10, 1904 he was admitted to the Mendocino State Hospital of California.[5] He continued as a patient of this hospital through the 1940s.[6][7][8][9]

Caesar died November 24, 1942 in Ukiah, Mendocino, California, United States.[10] He was buried in Ukiah Cemetery in Ukiah, Mendocino County, California, United States.[11]

Sources

  1. United States Census, 1880, Czar Cumings in household of N. Cumings, Goodhues Crossing, Tulare, California, United States.
  2. Two Brothers Will Hang Next Friday, The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) 20 Sep 1896, Page 3.
  3. 3.0 3.1 California State Archives; Sacramento, California; Secretary of State California State Archives San Quentin Prison Registers.
  4. United States Census, 1900, Caesar Cummings, California State Prison San Rafael city, Marin, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 60, sheet 5B.
  5. California State Archives; Sacramento, California; Mendocino State Hospital Commitment Registers, Books 5-7, Pages 1780-3289; Roll Number: 3; Film Location: MF8:11.
  6. United States Census, 1910, Carser Cummings, Ukiah, Mendocino, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 69, sheet 8B.
  7. United States Census, 1920, Caesar Cummings, 1920; Ukiah, ED 124, Mendocino, California, United States.
  8. United States Census, 1930, Ceasar Cummings, Ukiah, Mendocino, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 27, sheet 10B, line 100.
  9. United States Census, 1940, Caeser Cummings, Ukiah Judicial Township, Mendocino, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 23-7, sheet 14B, line 43, family , Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940.
  10. California Death Index, 1940-1997, Caesar Cummings, 24 Nov 1942; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento
  11. Find A Grave, memorial page for Caesar Cummings (11 Dec 1872–24 Nov 1942), Find a Grave Memorial ID 29008477, citing Ukiah Cemetery, Ukiah, Mendocino County, California, USA.




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