State of
Department of Health of the The City of
Bureau of Records
Standard Certificate of Death
Name of Institution:
4. Color or Race: White
5. Marital Condition: Widowed
7. Age: 65 yrs
Trade, Profession, or Particular kind of work: Housewife
General Nature of Industry: [blank]
9A. How long in US (if of foreign birth): [blank]
9B. How long resident in City of
11. Birthplace of Father:
12. Maiden Name of Mother: Mary Cullen
13. Birthplace of Mother:
Duration: [blank]
Contributory: [blank]
Signature: J. Pamerantz, M.D.
House Physician
Date of Burial: November 9th, 1925
19. Undertaker: Henry J. Flood
Address:
1. No burial permit can be obtained without a proper certificate
2. Certificates must be written throughout in black ink.
3. No certificate will be accepted which is mutilate, illegible, inaccurate, or any portion of which has been erased, interlined, corrected, or altered, as all such changes impair its value as a public record.
Signature Henry J. Flood
This is the death certificate of Elizabeth Toner Loughlin Renehan (so far winning the "longest name" contest in our family). She's listed as being 65. Given that she was listed as 55 in 1910, 15 in 1870, and 5 in 1860, she should actually have been about 70. That's not far off. She died of pernicious anemia, which is the result of a B-12 deficiency. The son who signed her body over to the undertaker (Henry J Flood, and I realized where I know that name from: he's the undertaker who buried Patrick) was Thomas Loughlin. This son wasn't on the 1910 census when she was living with second husband Thomas Renehan, kids John and Katherine Loughlin, and nephew Willie Mulvaney. Because he shares his father's name, and had moved out of his mother's home before his younger siblings did, I'm going to take a leap and assume he might be the oldest - though I wouldn't venture to guess whether he was older or younger than Charles Thomas Loughlin, the brother who died at 8 months old in 1876.
2 comments:
My great grandfather was the undertaker, Henry J. Flood. The undertaker who signed this document.
Michael Baumann
Hi Michael - thanks for stopping by. Many of my family were buried by the Floods - his actual signature probably shows up on a number of death certificates that I have scanned and posted on the blog!
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