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Eldred L. Umbaugh / Woodhurst was born at Green Island in Jackson County, Iowa on August 31st 1903 to parents Frank Umbaugh and his first wife Margaret (nee) Mangler. His middle name may have been Lawrence.
After his parents' marriage was dissolved and his mother had remarried into the Woodhurst surname, Eldred appears himself to have assumed that surname for some period of his life.
He worked initially as a clothes presser. His love of horses motivated him to move to Wyoming, living variously in Sheridan and in Casper, Natrona County, working as a range worker. In Wyoming he adopted the forename "Jack" in preference to Eldred.
He married first to a woman whose name is unknown, and (probably by her) produced a son who may have been named William. He subsequently divorced and remarried to a woman named Darlene whose maiden name is unknown. The chronology of these marriages in relation to his movements between and within Iowa and Wyoming is currently unknown.
He died aged 57, following a short illness, at the Natrona Memorial Hospital on December 15th 1960. His obituary was published on December 16th in The Casper Tribune-Herald. He was buried on December 20th at the Highland Park Cemetery in Casper. Darlene was still alive at that time, living in Sheridan.