Philadelphia Burials, 1806, 1811, 1858, 1860

PHILADELPHIA BURIALS, 1806, 1811, 1858, I860 Contributed by Trudy Slaven The following records of Philadelphia burials were found by Jefferson Moak in the Philadelphia City Archives. They are not included in the WPA Index1 nor in the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania/Historical Society of Pennsylvania indexes. Items in {curly brackets] are alternate spelling or additional informa¬ tion from the burial-ground report. FOLDER OF 10 NOVEMBER-7 DECEMBER 1811 Locality or parents / Decedent / Age / Date / Cause of death /Doctor or infor¬ mant/ Burial ground Tobias Bold {Brod} / (child o0 Bold / stillborn / 29 November 181 1 / [no cause of death] / [no informant] / Public Burial Ground Maria Turner / (child of) Turner / 4 days / 1 December 1811 / [no age] / Mrs. Mengel, midwife, witness: L. Hoffner, John Riley / Public Burial Ground [no locality] / John McKinney / about 9 years / 2 December 1811/ con¬ sumption / [no informant] / Public Burial Ground [no locality] / Marg’t Caldwell /11 days / [no date, return 30 November- 7 December] / cholera / M. C. Shallcross / Public Burial Ground [no locality] / Kitty Thomas / 2 months / 3 December 1811/ marasmus / James Gallagher / Public Burial Ground Moyamensing / Ager Wilson / between 60 & 70 / 5 December 1811/ decay / Ruth (her x mark) Spindler / Public Burial Ground Alms house & house of employment, born Germany / Jacob Holder /63/1 December 1811/ pneumonia / J. Stewart / Public Burial Ground Alms house & house of employment / Mary Connell /3/3 December 1811 / pertussis / M. C. Shallcross / Public Burial Ground l Works Projects Administration, “Index to Registration of Deaths, City of Philadel¬ phia, 1803-1860," (typescript, 1938); available as FHL #978,982-996 or Pennsylvania State Archives RG-13, rolls 3497-3310. 160 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 45 (2007) 2007 Philadelphia Burials, 1806, 1811, 1858, 1860 161 Locality or parents / Decedent / Age / Date / Cause of death / Doctor or informant/ Burial ground Alms house & house of employment / Jacob Maroner /45/1 December 1811/ mania potu / J. Stewart / Public Burial Ground [no locality] / John Harkins / about 20 months / 2 December 1811/ atro¬ phy /Jos. Parrish / Public Burial Ground [no locality] / Charles Anderson / 35 / [no date, return 30 November-7 December] / [no cause of death] / from Denis, coroner / Public Burial Ground / Public Burial Ground [no locality] / Kosemus Hanson / 6 weeks / 2 December 1811, died at 3 o’clock this morning / decay [debility] / Maria Hildebrant, Margreta Olson / German Lutheran Mary Birkey / (child of) Birkey /14 hours / 30 November 1811/ premature convulsions / Kensington Alms house, born Ireland / Michael McKelvey /36/3 December 1811/ consumption / J. Rusart / St Mary’s New Ground, entitled to Xtian bur¬ ial, [signed] M. Egan, John Doyle Dock St. / John Dennison / 30 / [no date, return 30 November-7 Decem¬ ber] / pul. consumption / Benj. Rush / St. Mary’s Old Ground, J. Doyle Front St. / Mary Thomson /23/27 November 1811/ consumption / L. Cal¬ houn, M.D. / 4th Presbyterian Walnut St., an American / Susanna Manna / 2 years 5 months 15 days /12 November 1811/ hives / C. Anderson / 4th Presbyterian [no locality] / Philip Leese /38/5 December 1811/ bilious pleurisy / Ch. Caldwell / 4th Presbyterian Lombard near 3rd / Capt. S. Veacock /38/3 December 1811/ apoplexy / Henry Neill / St. Peters [no locality] / Mary Rickoff (Reichof) / 4 months / 30 November 1811 / convultions / Christian Borbyshell / German Presbyterian [no locality] / Miss Trimner /20 / [no date, return 30 November-7 Decem¬ ber] / hemorrhage / [no informant] / German Presbyterian Capt John Clun, Greenwood Lane, Kensington / (child) Clun / 4 years 4 months 20 days / 5 December 1811/ whooping cough / David Bertron / Second Baptist [no locality] / John Addington / 2 years 1 month / 29 November 1811/ enteritis (inflamation of bowels) / Ch. Caldwell / 3d Presbyterian [no locality] / a stillborn / [no age] / [no date, return 30 November-7 Decem¬ ber] / [no cause of death] / [no informant] / 3d Presbyterian 162 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 45 Locality or parents / Decedent / Age / Date / Cause of death / Doctor or infor¬ mant/ Burial ground Thomas & Dezia {Dorsey}, Borough of Frankford / Mary Dorsey / about 20 months / 1 December 1811/ infantile disease / R. J. Lody, M.D, /1st Baptist [no locality] / Andrew Johnson / about 14 years / 30 November 1811/ tetanus /Jos. Parrish / 1st Baptist [no locality] / James Brown /75/4 December 1811/ supposed to be of a mortification in the bowels / Caleb Shreve, Thos. Y. Field /2nd Presby¬ terian daughter of Aaron & Phoebe VanArsdale / Hannah VanArsdale / 22 months / 1 December 1811/ pneumonia / James Gallaher / 2nd Presbyterian Alms house & house of employment / John Jack, a Negro /30/4 December 1811/ syphulus / J. H. Gordon / Holy Trinity Church Burial Ground, James Cellers child ofWm. Haus {Hawes] / William Haus / 6 weeks / 3 December 1811/ whooping cough / Will’m P. Dewees / 2nd Reformed Presbyterian [no locality] / Susanna W. Henry / 40 / [no date, return 30 November- 7 December] / convulsions / [no informant] / St. Paul’s [no locality] / Catharine McCleary /26/27 November 1811 last evening / mortication / Isaac Cleaver / Kensington Church Burial Ground [no locality] / a male, Jacob Randolph, a child of color / about 4 months / 2 December 1811/ cholera/ Jos. Parrish / St. Thomas [no locality] / Mary Parry /25/25 November 1811 / consumption / J’n Woollens, Phy. / St. Thomas [no locality] / Rebecca Cummings, a female /30/29 November 1811/ con¬ sumption / Ja[mes] Benizet / St. Thomas [no locality] / Thomas Conolly / [no age] / [no date, return 30 November-7 December] / not given / “The remains of Thomas Conolly are entitled to a Ch’n BuriaT [signed] W. V. J. Harold / [St. Mary’s] N.G. {New Ground], John Doyle FOLDER OF 21 DECEMBER- 28 DECEMBER 1811 Locality or parents / Decedent / Age / Date / Cause of death/ Doctor or infor¬ mant/ Burial ground [no locality] / Ann Palmer /51/23 December 1811 / decay / Sam Palmer / St. Pauls Philadelphia Burials, 1806, 1811, 1858, 1860 2007 163 Locality or parents / Decedent / Age / Date / Cause of death / Doctor or inf ormant/ Burial ground [no locality] / Valentin Rees / 63 / [no date, return 21 December-28 December] / gout / [no informant] / Lutheran a stranger from Lancaster Co. [Pa.) / Jacob Kepplinger / 48 / [no date, return 21 December-28 December] / debility / John Long / Lutheran [no locality] / Charlotte Levina Heran, N.B. widow hero /75 years 5 months 10 days / 22 December 1811, afternoon / palsey (paralysis) / Geo. F. Alberti / Lutheran daughter of David Everhard (Everhart) / Elizabeth Everhard (Everhart) / 3 months / 22 December 1811/ whooping cough / Charles Brown / Lutheran native of England /John Ellay / about 40 / 20 December 1811 / fever bilous / Ch. Caldwell / St. Marys New Ground, John Doyle [no locality] / Thomas O’Brien / [no age] / 27 December 1811/ [no cause of death] / “The remains of Thos. O’Brien entitled to Christian burial” [signed) Jas. Harold / (St. Mary’s) Old Ground [no locality] / Daniel Harry / [no age] / 26 December 1811/ [no cause of death] / “The remains of Dan'l Harry entitled to Xtian burial” [signed] M. Egan / (St. Mary’s] Old Ground [no locality] / Jacob Schreiver / 45 / 26 December 1811 / dropsy / John C. Otto / 2nd Reformed Presbyterian [no locality] / Hannah Copeland / 22 / [no date, return 21 December- 28 December] / consumption / [no informant] / St. Peters [no locality] / Elizabeth Negly / 4 months 2 days / 23 December 1811/ hives / [no informant] / 3rd Baptist Capt. Kennedy’s child/Jane Kennedy/ 2 months (20 months] / 27 Decem¬ ber 1811/ sore throat cynanche trachralis / Joseph Klapp / 3rd Baptist [no locality] / Mrs. Fowler / about 45 / 26 December 1811/ remitting bilious fever /Joseph Klapp / Christian Church Burial Ground Northern Liberties /Jonas {James} Small / 57/25 December 1811 / cancer / David Collins, John Bishop, Elias [illegible], Zephariah Adams/ 2nd Baptist Northern Liberties / Elizabeth Bevan /53/20 December 1811/ convul¬ sions / O. F. Fits, Catharine (her x mark) Earhart, Elizabeth (her x mark) Servass, Elizabeth Mann / 2nd Baptist [no locality] / Uriah Elwell /50/23 December 1811/ pul. consumption / Wm N. Moyland, M.D. / 2nd Baptist granddaughter of Samuel Steward in Poplar Lane above Bud St. / Luiza Stew¬ ard / 2 years /17 December 1811/ pleurasy / Samuel Steward / 2nd Baptist 164 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 45 Locality or parents / Decedent / Age / Date / Cause of death / Doctor or infor¬ mant/ Burial ground Northern Liberties / Amanda Skill man, a female child / 2 months / [no date, return 21 December-28 December] / dropsy in breast / A. Dickerson / Kensington son of Sarah Peterson, widow. Mother lives in Laurel Court / George Peter¬ son / 2 years / 23 December 1811/ whooping cough / [no informant] / Old Swedes widow, German / lives with relatives [in] Mary St. {now League St.} / Mary Lipps /85/21 December 1811/ old age / [no informant] / Old Swedes widow, Ireland / lived with a son [in] Federal St. below 2d / Mary Spives/ 60 / 22 December 1811 / dropsy / [no informant] / Old Swedes [no locality] / Robert Allison / 73 / [no date, return 21 December-28 December] / abscess in his liver / Wm. Currie, attending physician / 3rd Presbyterian [no locality] / John Hamilton Brown /15 months / [no date, return 21 December- 28 December] / disorder a complaint of the liver / John H. Brown / 3rd Presbyterian child of Mr. Whiteman / (male child) Whiteman / stillborn / 22 December 1811 / [no cause of death] / [no informant] / 3rd Presbyterian [no locality] / Sarah Allibone / about 50 / 25 December 1811/ hydrothorax or dropsy of the breast / Wistar / Union Methodist [no locality] / Mrs. Mary Means / 54 / 19 December 1811/ apoplexy paraly¬ sis/James Gallaher / 4th Presbyterian child of Mr. Blackford / (child of) Blackford /11 months /23 December 1811 / catarrhal fever / Rob’t Johnston, M.D. / Friends native of Philadelphia / Amy Thomson / 59/25 December 1811/ asthma / Ch. Caldwell / Friends daughter of Jon[a]than Night {Knight}, Northern Liberties, Artillery Lane / Mary Night {Knight} / 14 / 24 December 1811/ nervous fever / Doctor William S. Rowvoudt / Friends 192 N. 5th St., a native of New Jersey / Daniel Roberts /59/26 December 1811, this morning / palsey hemiplegia / Samuel P. Griffiths / Friends [no locality] / Joseph Hill / 30 / 19 December 1811/ consumption / Casper Shafer, attending physician /2nd Presbyterian [no locality] / Mary Reading / 28/7 December 1811/ puerferal convultions /Jos, Woolens, phy’n / 2nd Presbyterian a female / Susan Bateman / 40 /19 December 1811/ dropsy / Wm P. Dewees /2nd Presbyterian 2007 Philadelphia Burials, 1806, 1811, 1858, 1860 165 Locality or parents / Decedent / Age / Date / Cause of death / Doctor or infor¬ mant/ Burial ground Mr. Gourley’s child / (child of) Gourley / stillborn /22 December 1811 / [no cause of death] / [no informant] / 2nd Presbyterian Rev. & Mrs. May’s child / (child of) May / stillborn / 26 December 1811 / [no cause of death] / [no informant] / 2nd Presbyterian [no locality] / Catharine Kitler/ 61 / 26 December 1811, died yesterday / plursy / Isaac Cleaver / German Presbyterian report in German / a female / 4 months / [no date, return 21 December-28 December] / whooping cough / [no informant] / German Presbyterian [no locality] / adult male / 50 / [no date, return 21 December-28 December] / rheumatism /Jos. Zesline/ Moravian’s [no locality] /Juleyann Waldron / 28/ 24 December 1811 / inflamation of the lungs / Isaac Parvis / Beathel 1858 Locality or parents / Decedent / Age / Date / Cause of death / Doctor or infor¬ mant / Burial ground [no locality] / 1. Walter / 54/13 May 1858/ gastritis / Fr _ R. Blake, M.D. /J. H. Congregzion daughter of Solomon (Felsenthal), native of Rhine, Bavaria, Europe, has resided in Philadelphia 9 months / Bertha Felsenthal / 4 years 1 day / 10 May 1858 / scarlatina / Philip DeYoung, M.D. / J. H. Congregzion children of Mrs. Earnest Becker / (two male children) Becker / stillborn / 18 June 1858 / [no cause of death] / D. Hershey / German Lutheran [no locality] / John Einlnger/ 45 years 4 months / 13 June 1858, 6Vi o’clock P.M. / grastraenterites / D. Seidler / German Lutheran [no locality] / Fred’kG. Wolf / 39 years 19days/ 18June 1858/ consump¬ tion of lungs / W. P. Nasey, M.D. / German Lutheran son of Christian & Catharine Andres / William Fredrik Andres / 5 years 1 month / 18 June 1858/ fibris nervosa abdominalis / [no informant] / German Lutheran Burial Gr'd: Lewis Brenner I860 BOX A-3 123 Locality or parents / Decedent / Age / Date / Cause of death / Doctor or infor¬ mant /Burial ground residing at Chelten above Street [blank] / Eliza Williams /6/25 June I860 / gangrene of the lungs / James E. Rhoads, M.D. / [no burial ground] residing Holmesburg, black, female, widow / Charlotte Johnson /57/16 June 1860/ cancer of breast/ J. Burd Peake, M.D. / [no burial ground] 166 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 45 Locality or parents / Decedent / Age / Date / Cause of death / Doctor or infor¬ mant/ Burial ground residing Centre St., Germantown, white, female, married, father: Niclos Unrue, mother: Mary Unrue / Barbara Bowman /88/27 June I860 / hepatitis / Albert Meley, undertaker / Dunkerd Graveyard white, female, father: John Longaker, mother: Harriet Longaker, 147 N. 13th St. / Sarah Jane Longaker / 8 months / 27 June I860 / general tuber¬ culosis / D. B. Grove, undertaker, 245 N. 13th St. / Burial (at} Evansburg, Montgomery County, Pa. [no locality] / Emma E. Harris, col’d / 4 months / 25 June I860 / cholera moribus / Jas. McLadden, M.D., 863 Fifth St. / Zoer Burial Ground, Dennis S. Wood, ground steward LOOSE PAPERS Additionally, two loose reports were found, one in French from 1806, one [undated] in German, translated below. I certify that the named Lindor, found indisposed yesterday morning, left my house for returning to his wife, and that in the morning when I called he had died in the night. I have delivered the certificate at the request of the widow. Philadelphia October 20th 1806. [signed] Auge Auriol New Ground [St. Mary’s Catholic Church Burial Ground]. P. Scravendyke This child of Henry Smith has died this morning at 7 o’clock with the hives and believed to be about 4 months, [signed] Philip Hittzel