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From: "Amanda Clifford" <>
Subject: Re: [ALL] Need Help Deciphering Handwriting
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:39:48 -0400
In-Reply-To: <e3afe72a0709282227q45027bd3p995a13d5d13e9449@mail.gmail.com>


Hi Judy,

Thanks so much for your assistance -

I got most of what you got too.

For the cause of death - I got chronic myochrondronitis - or however you
spell it - but I'm pretty sure the word preceding it is "chronic"

For contributory information - you and almost everyone else has come up with
influenza- so I have to trust that.

The mother's maiden name is driving me crazy because it should be Irish I
would think, but nothing really rings a bell as being significantly Irish or
even English for that matter so I don't know!

Such a shame, isn't it? To come so close but to still be so confused! Ha!
The nature of the beast I think!

Thank you so very much for taking a look and a crack at it.

I greatly appreciate it.

-A

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Judy Florian
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 1:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [ALL] Need Help Deciphering Handwriting

Going down left side - then right


No. 42000004

Place Death Allegheny
Pittsburgh

1734 Rutledge 19th Ward

Mrs. Helen? Clifford

Female

Inst.?

widow

March 22, 1916

Dec_ (month?) 1848

Dr attended 1916 March 22

Dr last saw March 26 ?

68 yrs

occ. Housewife

Birthplace Ireland

Patrick Murphy

Father: Ireland

Maiden Mother ___ Horrick? Honrick? -- even with enlargement, first name
is unreadable, faint

Informant
E. A. Clifford
1734 Rutledge St

March 23 1916 local registrar

RIGHT side


____ myocarditis -- I can't figure out the 1st word. It ends with "ic" --
they did not use some words they use today such as "idiopathic myocarditis"
and they hadn't figured out yet viral and bacterial so it is none of those
words -- I enlarged this piece if you want to see that section

10-19 written in (long hand)

Contributory: Influenza

Geo R. Winters, MD
12 (Colust?? ) St

St Mary's Cemetery
Buried March 26, 1916

Undertaker
A. StaaB -- clearly Staab on enlargement
110 S? Main St. (S. ? probably South but the S is not very clear)

March 16 1916
=
Hope this helps,
Judy


On 9/27/07, Amanda Clifford <> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Clearly I'm active with my research today .. :-)
>
>
>
> I have a death certificate and the great news is that it lists my
> great-great-great grandmother's first and maiden name on it.
>
>
>
> THE BAD NEWS - I cannot for the life of me decipher the handwriting. It
> is
> a very bad copy. I can read everything else but that's because I already
> know the information so it's not too hard to figure it out.
>
>
>
> If the practice was the same in 1916 Pittsburgh that the death certificate
> was filled out by the funeral home, then the funeral home was A. Staab.
>
>
>
> If anyone would like to take a crack at deciphering the name, please email
> me and I will send you the image.
>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> -A
>
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