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Death certificate — Louisa Boentgen (indexed "Louisa Brentgen"), widow, died 9 March 1922 at 3223 North Randolph Street, Philadelphia

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Record type: Death Records and Certificates
Source: Ancestry Pennsylvania, "Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906–1972" (collection 5164), record 1896633; image 41381_2421401757_0433-00661 (image 661 of 3274); certificate 23626 (PHMC certificate range 023001–026000). Found under "Borntgen," death 1922 ±1 (2 hits); not found under "Louisa Boentgen" (death 1922, exact), "Boentgen" or "Bontgen" (1922 ±1). The full image (3000 × 2848) read in sections, 26–27 October 2026; saved as _New/PDF/1922 Death Certificate - Louisa Boentgen (indexed Brentgen) - Philadelphia - Ancestry 5164 cert 23626.pdf.

People in this record

Georg Wilhelm Ehrenfried Wesemann George Washington Wesemann George Willford Wesemann George Foster Wesemann Nicholas Boentgen Louisa Seeger Kate Boentgen

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Transcript and translation

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Transcription (as read)

Place of death: Philadelphia; Registration District No. 1; "Registered No. 5891"; "3223 N. Randolph" [Street].

Full name: "Louisa Boentgen" [indexed Brentgen].

Sex: female. Color or race: white. Single, married, widowed or divorced: widow.

Date of birth: "May 23rd 1840." Age: "81 yrs 9 mos 16 ds."

Occupation: "Housework."

Birthplace: "Unknown." Name of father, birthplace of father, maiden name of mother, birthplace of mother: ditto marks only [not known].

Medical certificate: attended deceased from "Jan 8, 1922" to "Mar 9"; last saw her alive "Mar 9." Cause of death: "Oedema of the lungs"; contributory: "Dilation of the heart," duration 3 months. [Duration line also carries the stamps "75 / 90-103."] Signed "J. C. McGrath [?] M.D.," 10 March 1922, address "700 York St."

Informant: "Laura Boentgen" [first name doubtful: Laura or Lena], address "3223 North Randolph St."

Filed: "Mar 10 1922."

Place of burial: "German Lutheran Cemetery"; date of burial 13 March 1922.

Undertaker: "J. H. Hackman [?]," address "907 W. Lehigh Ave."

Plain reading

Louisa Boentgen, a white widow who kept house, born on 23 May 1840 (birthplace and parents not known to the informant), died aged 81 years 9 months 16 days on 9 March 1922 at 3223 North Randolph Street, Philadelphia, of oedema of the lungs, with dilation of the heart for three months; her doctor had attended her since 8 January 1922. Laura [or Lena] Boentgen of the same address gave the information. She was buried on 13 March 1922 in the German Lutheran Cemetery.

Notes. PROVEN for the death date (it agrees with her pension card, transcript Pension_Payment_Card_Louisa_Boentgen_Widow_Of_Nicholas_1922), the place, her widowhood, the burial and the informant as written; STATED for the birth date (the informant's statement). The age is two days off the arithmetic from 23 May 1840 to 9 March 1922 (81 years 9 months 14 days): a clerk's slip. 1840 agrees with her census ages (20 in 1860, 30 in 1870, 40 in 1880) against the Find a Grave index's 1841. The certificate gives no birthplace or parents: it neither confirms nor contradicts Louise Seeger of Reutlingen of the 1860 marriage index. The informant is not Anna M. The German Lutheran Cemetery is also the burial ground of Nicholas Boentgen (1896), Kate Boentgen (1907) and George Wesemann (1896).