Rebecca Coleman Death Certificate

From 1812 Pension File of Jacob Coleman available on Fold3.com
Transcribed by Alexander Conrad

1. Full name of deceased: Rebecca Coleman

2. Age: 97 Years 6 Months 14 Days
3. Color: white

Occupation: ~~~~~~

4. Single, married, widow or widower {Cross out all but right one} [none crossed out]
5. Birthplace: New Jersey

6. Last place of residence: Camden

7. How long resident in this State: Life
8. Place of death: #112 Nth 6th street, Camden, N.J.
9. Father’s name: Arthur Venable
County of Birth: U.S.

10. Mother’s name: Rebecca

Country of Birth: U.S.
11. I hereby certify that I attended the deceased during the last illness and that she died on the 28th day of Sept 1885; and that the cause of death was Old Age.
Length of sickness: Seven days
[signed] C.J. Cooper
Medical Attendant
Residence: Camden
Name of Undertaker: F.P. Middleton
Residence of Undertaker: Camden
Place of Burial: ~~~~~

[The following handwritten letter attached to the above]

I [L] Cooper Carman Clerk of the City of Camden do hereby certify that the annexed certificate is a true copy of the Death of Rebecca Coleman as recorded in my said office.
In Witness whereof I have herewith set my hand and caused the corporate seal of the City of Camden to be herewith affixed this first day of April A.D. 1887
[L] Cooper Carman
Clerk of the City of Camden

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Carol Lucille Garrison ( 18 July 1938 – 25 August 1999)

Carol L. Garrison, 1959

Born:

18 July 1938 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States¹

Married:

24 Oct 1959 at First Presbyterian Church in Pitman, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States to Charles Edward Conrad.²

Died:

25 August 1999 in Bradenton, Manatee, Florida, United States³

Parents:

Orville Wilson Garrison (20 September 1907 – 25 June 1968)³
Naomi Evelyn Carman (22 July 1905 – 3 November 1999)³

Spouse:

Charles Edward Conrad (3 April 1937 – 16 June 1999)

Children:

Living

Ancestors
Carol is a descendant of Samuel L. Garrison & Lydia Burch, Charles R. Carman & Caroline A. Brill, Ansel Irelan & Elizabeth Ayars, Uriah Ware & Mary V. Coleman, Hudson Craner & Phebe Clark, Wendel Gottlieb Hornef & Maria Louis, and Joseph Funston & Frances.

Biography
Carol Lucille Garrison was born on 18 Jul 1938 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.¹ She lived at 37 Arbustus in Pitman, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States on 1 Apr 1940.⁴ Carol was a Registered Nurse. She died on 25 Aug 1999 at the age of 61 in Bradenton, Manatee, Florida, USA.³

Last updated: 25 July 2013

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Citations

1. Pennsylvania, Department of Health, birth certificate (1938), Carol L. Garrison; Division of Vital Records, New Castle.
2. Pitman, Gloucester County, New Jersey, marriage certificate (1959), Charles E. Conrad & Carol L. Garrison; Office of Registrar of Vital Statistics, Pitman.
3. Florida, Department of Health, death certificate 99-105725 (1999), Carol L. Conrad; Office of Vital Statistics, Jacksonville.
4. 1940 U.S. Census, Gloucester County, New Jersey, population schedule, Pitman, enumeration district (ED) 8-42, sheet 7B, line 55, household 17, Mary Garrison; digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2000219 : accessed 7 June 2013).

This post is part of the Fearless Females: 31 Blogging Prompts to Celebrate Women’s History Month.

Today’s prompt:

What education did your mother receive? Your grandmothers? Great-grandmothers? Note any advanced degrees or special achievements.

Carol L. Garrison – Nurses Training Graduation 1959

Both of my grandmothers left school after the eighth grade to work in the hosiery mills in Philadelphia. My mother was the first person in my family to graduate high school. Her father attended one year of high school and my other grandfather attended 3 years. She also was the first to obtain an education beyond high school.

My mother graduated from the Presbyterian Hospital nurses training program in Philadelphia in 1959. It was a three year program with traditional classroom learning and hands-on training. She told me she had always wanted to be a nurse. She also told me some eye-opening stories about working in a city hospital in the 1950’s. Hint: drugs and violence are not new phenomena.

Upon graduation my mother worked in the maternity ward of Presbyterian Hospital. Later in her life she worked as a home health care nurse.

This post is part of the Fearless Females: 31 Blogging Prompts to Celebrate Women’s History Month.

Today’s prompt is: “Working girl: Did your mother or grandmother work outside the home? What did she do? Describe her occupation.”

As far as I know, my father’s mother did not work after she married, but like most everyone else in her neighborhood she worked in the hosiery factories before then. My mother was a Registered Nurse and worked in a hospital before I was born and in a nursing home when I was in high school, and later in home health care.

It was my mother’s mother who I always thought of as a working woman. She did stay home with my mother for about a decade, but the rest of her pre-retirement adult life was spent working.

She worked at a book bindery and at least part of her time was spent packing boxes for shipping and she became an expert at that. If you needed items packed in a box wasting the least amount of space, she was the woman to ask. She could eyeball it and get it all in there on the first try.

I recently rediscovered this interesting piece of ephemera in my family documents:

It details all the pays scales and benefits negotiated for by her union. It even has raises built in with separate tables of pay for 1965, 1966 & 1967. This being the 1960’s there are different pay scales for men and women, even if they had the same job title, e.g. Male Helpers, Female Helpers, Journeymen, Journeywomen. Someday I plan to scan the whole booklet. It’s a fascinating look at the time period and industry.

I am not one for the whole bucket list idea, but as we pass from one year to the next I recognize there are some genealogical mysteries I would like to solve in my lifetime.  Here is an incomplete list in no particular order. Some are things that are likely never to be answered. Some are only a matter of time.

1. The disinheriting of Charles H. Ware.  In his will, Uriah Ware very explicitly excluded his son Charles. For the longest time, I was unable to prove the whereabouts of Charles after he left home. I have since discovered him in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania which seems a long way from Camden County, New Jersey. How did he end up there and why did his father disown him? I may never know.

2. What happened to Frances Funston? Joseph Funston was married twice according to his Civil War pension file. His first marriage to Frances ended in divorce. She was the mother of his children and according to what was found in the pension file, did not appear to contest the divorce. Joseph remarried right away. I have never found Frances in any record after the divorce in 1872, not alone or with any of her children who were by then grown. She likely remarried, but to whom I have no idea. (Update 7/17/14: I found her!)

3.  May Whitaker? When talking about her family, my grandmother always said there was a Whitaker in there somewhere. On death and marriage records for her uncles and mother, it was their mother who was listed as May (or Mary) Whitaker. I have her on the 1880 census with her husband Joseph and children, and with a Mary Partington who is identified as Joseph’s Mother-In-Law. Then she died in 1886. Did her mother remarry a man named Partington? Was the family wrong and May’s last name was really Partington? I have found no other records of her or her mother, under Whitaker or Partington. May was born in England around 1852. I have no immigration date so I do not know if she came over as a child or adult. Based on the ages of their children, she and Joseph married around 1871. There is still a lot more searching to be done on this one.

4. What ethnicity and religion were the Carmans? There are several Carman lines in the eastern United States. There was an Englishman who settled in Long Island and his ancestors stretched south into New Jersey and east into Pennsylvania. There was a German who landed in Philadelphia whose name became anglicized as Carman. My Carmans have been in the Philadelphia area a long time. My latest research suggests they were in Montgomery County in the late eighteenth century and likely well before that. Are they connected to the Germans, the English or some other Carman line? My 3rd great-grandparents were Catholic and their  church was set on fire during the Riots of 1844. From what I read, it was the two Irish churches which were targeted while the nearby German church was left untouched. Were they Irish? My 2nd great-grandfather married a German Protestant. Was this when the Carmans became Protestant? The more I learn about this family, the more questions I have.

5. French! My grandmother had no idea where her Carmans came from and she knew there was a Whitaker but not who it was. Another thing she always used to say was that she had French in her, but she did not know from which line. My family ethnicity is fairly boring: lots of German, English, Irish, Scottish and way back on my father’s side a bit of  Scandinavian   But mostly just lots and lots of Germany and British Isles. What I am trying to say is that French would be exotic. Ironically, the closest I have come to finding it has been through the only ancestors I have traced back to Germany: the Hornefs.  The area of Germany they lived in was near the border which by the little I have read moved around a bit. There was also the movement of people as Protestants sought safe havens. I have found church record indexes with their names in German and French. (Georg Peter/George Pierre) Is this the French my grandmother heard about? Since most of my grandmother’s ancestry has brick walls in the United States I may never know for sure.

6. The princess in the hogshead. I’ll end on this one, because it’s a bit silly. In the seventeenth century a young Swedish princess had to flee her home due to political troubles. She stowed away on a ship by hiding in a hogshead. The ship wrecked off the New Jersey coast and she washed up alive but destitute. A trapper, John Garrison, found her and eventually married her. And thus, all Garrisons in Southern New Jersey are descended from Swedish royalty. Or, so we claim. Who is ever going to prove otherwise? 🙂