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Certificate of Death - Elwood [G.?] Wesemann, Philadelphia, 1915
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The record
Full name: Elwood [?] Wesemann
Place of death: Philadelphia Hospital for Contagious Diseases
Sex / color: Male, White; Single
Date of birth: 30 July 1910; age 4 years 10 months 4 days [as written]
Occupation: none
Birthplace: Phila.
Father: George W. Wesemann; born Phila.
Mother (maiden name): Mary Knoell; born Phila.
Informant: George W. Wesemann, 3016 Germantown [Ave.]
Date of death: 26 May 1915, about 5:52 a.m. [?]
Cause of death: Diphtheria; "Died [2-3?] hours after admission"; stamped CONTAGIOUS
Certified by: [signature unclear, possibly J. J. Wardy], dated 5/26/1915; address 2d & Luzerne St.
Former usual residence: 3016 Germantown Ave.; Ward 37
Burial: Hillside Cemetery, 27 May 1915; undertaker John F. Fluehr, 104 W. Susquehanna [Ave.]
Filed: 26 May 1915
Family note: son of George W. Wesemann and Mary M. (compare the 1910 census, which lists daughter Ruth E.; Elwood was born after that census).