Death Certificate Emma Brosius Abington 1925 File 120765

The record

Conventions: [ ] editorial addition; [?] uncertain reading; […] illegible; [sic] as written.*

Transcription

File no. 120765; registration district 721; primary registration district no. 3086; registered no. 389. Montgomery County, Abington Township, "Abington Memorial Hospital." Full name "Emma Brosius" [the index reads "Brosins"]. Female, white, "Married"; "husband of": blank. Date of birth "January 10, 1870"; age "55 yrs 11 mos 3 ds." Occupation "Housewife." Birthplace "Phila, Penna." Father "George Wesemann," born "Germany." Mother's maiden name "Frederica Bowers," born "Germany." Informant "Sophia V. Starkweather," "Winburne, Pa." Date of death "Dec. 13, 1925" (2:46 P.M.); attended "Dec. 10 1925 to Dec. 13 1925." Cause "Chronic interstitial nephritis," duration "[3?] yrs 8 mos." No operation, no autopsy. Physician's signature illegible, Abington, Pa. Burial "Ardsley Cemetery," 16 December 1925. Undertaker "Christian F. Brenner," 1532 N. 4th St. Filed 12/14/1925.

Plain reading

Emma Brosius, a married housewife aged 55, born in Philadelphia on 10 January 1870 to George Wesemann and Frederica "Bowers," both born in Germany, died at Abington Memorial Hospital on 13 December 1925 of chronic kidney inflammation; buried at Ardsley Cemetery on 16 December. Her daughter Sophia V. Starkweather, of Winburne, gave the information.

Notes

This names Georg Wesemann and Fredericka Bauer as her parents on a primary record and ties her to Sophia Starkweather as her daughter (the informant signs as Starkweather and as the one in Winburne): PROBABLE for the daughter relationship (the certificate does not say "daughter").

Conflicts noted: (1) Surname spelling "Brosius" on the image; the Ancestry index reads "Brosins." (2) Her husband's name is not on the certificate; the 1910 census has David F. Brosius, 46 (Prior Research, Chapter 4).