Rollie Shortridge Cummins and Emma Mae Andre Cummins were the parents Andre (1901), Corwin (1905), James (1910, and Marion (1914). Rollie was the pricipal of of Daleville School and later became the president of the Yorktown State Bank. During WWI, Rollie worked as the government appeal agent for Delaware County. He travelled extensively.
Rollie Cummins divorced Emma Mae 27 June 1929. The newspaper went into detail quoting Rollie as saying that his wife had “a peculiar desire [for the children] to attend schools belonging to the church to which she belonged.” The family lived for a time in Battle Creek, moving to Yorktown in 1908. Battle Creek, Michigan was the headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church which was established there in 1863.
Son, James Flemming Cummins moved to Takoma Park, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC, and worked for the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a the secretary-treasurer of the conference.
