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Title: Finding an Obit
Post by: cranstone on Tuesday 22 February 22 10:51 GMT (UK)
Good morning

I wondered if it is possible to find Obits for Philadelphia please, Pennsylvania?

I am looking for the Obit of a Mary Thomas who died 12 January 1929 age 88 if at all possible.

Many thanks
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 11:10 GMT (UK)
Not the one you want but may be of interest - obit for husband William Thomas and Jessie Thomas

The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19 Jun 1894, Tue    Page 7

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96162016/william-thomas-19-june-1894/

The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
7 May 1919, Wed    Page 18

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96162283/obituary-for-thomas-agnes/

Sandra
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: cranstone on Tuesday 22 February 22 13:55 GMT (UK)
Hi Sandra :)

Many thanks, yes they would be her husband and one of their daughters.  I will see if I can find a contact for Greenwood Cemetery and ask if they have anything on her as well.

Thank you again for your help.

Kind regards
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 22 February 22 13:58 GMT (UK)
Is this a help, it gives the Tel no:

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/44992/greenwood-cemetery

 

Also
http://www.kpgreenwoodcemetery.org/contact-us/
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: cranstone on Tuesday 22 February 22 14:09 GMT (UK)
Hi Gadget

Many thanks but I'm in UK so won't phone.  I can see from the website she is buried with William and another daughter Lucy but Lucy has no dates.
Kind regards
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 14:39 GMT (UK)
Lucy e Thomas - 28 February 1876 - 7 December 1948  (aged 72 years)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Father Wm Thomas - Mother Mary Penrose - sister Emma Wetzel was the informant.
3292 Frankford Avenue.
Certificate Number 112793

Sandra
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 14:46 GMT (UK)

There was a petition for naturalization for Lucy Eliza Thomas - 25 September 1922

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9PKN-9YLC?i=265&cc=1913395&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQP7V-DN8B

Sandra
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: cranstone on Tuesday 22 February 22 14:52 GMT (UK)
Hi Sandra
Thank you, she is indeed her and I have come across an Emma Wetzel on Ancestry but I can only see UK not international.  But thought it might be her
Their other children were William, Albert, Alice, Joseph, Henry (Jessie, Lucy, Emma)
Many thanks
Kind regards
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 14:55 GMT (UK)

Alice Mary Patterson - Alice Mary Thomas - 10 October 1872 - 14 July 1955 Philadelphia. (aged 82 years)
Father Wm Thomas - Mother Mary Penrose
Certificate Number 64827

Sandra
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 14:58 GMT (UK)

Obituary - The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Alice Mary Thomas Patterson.
17 Jul 1955, Sun     Page 73

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96168242/alice-patterson-17-july-1955/

Sandra

Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 14:59 GMT (UK)


FIND A GRAVE

Alice  Mary Thomas Patterson - also buried Greenwood Cemetery.

1872 - 1955

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149629727/alice-mary-patterson

Sandra

Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 15:03 GMT (UK)


FIND A GRAVE

William Patterson - 1874 - 1948

Greenwood Cemetery Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47105526/william-patterson

Sandra
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 15:10 GMT (UK)

Emma R Thomas - Spouse:   Frederick W Wetzel
Marriage Place:   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Marriage Year:   1904
Marriage License Number:   178766

Sandra
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 15:11 GMT (UK)

Marriage of Sarah Watt and Albert Thomas - Courier-Post
Camden, New Jersey - 20 Sep 1894, Thu    Page 1

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96168898/albert-thomas-and-sarah-witt-20/

Sandra
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 15:16 GMT (UK)

Albert P Thomas 1863 - 7 October 1937 Philadelphia Pennsylvania  (aged 74 years)
Father William Thomas - Mother Mary Thomas - Spouse Sarah Thomas
Certificate Number 93008 =- St Lukes Hospital - Inquest pending  :-\ (Someone may turn that up for you)

1900 census - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3WK-DBM

Frederick born 21 July 1899

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBBK-GK3?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=GMKR-6LV

1910 census - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGWL-SVW?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=GMKR-6LV


Sandra
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 15:30 GMT (UK)

Burials for Albert, Sarah, Fred and William were all Greenwood Cemetery.

Left Sarah W Thomas - 8/8/1936 - Wm A Thomas  - 7/2/1972

Centre Sarah J Thomas - 11/12/1917 - Albert P Thomas - 11/10/1937 (a note of room for 1 more)

Right - Lillian M Thomas - 3/7/1997 - Ralph Thomas - 1/11/2004 - Fred A Thomas. 10/10/1975.

Sandra








Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 15:37 GMT (UK)


SSDI - Fred Thomas - Birth Date 20 Jul 1899 - October 1975
Last Residence 08106, Audubon, Camden, New Jersey.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JY91-CTR

Sandra
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: cranstone on Tuesday 22 February 22 16:06 GMT (UK)
Hi Sandra

Thank you for all that info.

Writing it all down LOL

Kind regards
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: RJ137 on Tuesday 22 February 22 16:20 GMT (UK)
Quote from: cranstone on Tuesday 22 February 22 10:51 GMT (UK)

I am looking for the Obit of a Mary Thomas who died 12 January 1929 age 88 if at all possible.


The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
13 Jan 1929, Sun  •  Page 10

Obit: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96173196/the-philadelphia-inquirer/
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 16:32 GMT (UK)

wife of Albert Thomas.
 
Sarah W Thomas 17 November 1958 - 5 August 1936 (aged 77 years)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Spouse Albert Thomas. Informant Albert P Thomas
Certificate Number 74298

Sandra
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: cranstone on Tuesday 22 February 22 17:17 GMT (UK)
Hi RJ137

Many thanks for finding Mary.

Kind regards
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: RJ137 on Tuesday 22 February 22 17:19 GMT (UK)
The family in 1900

1900 census: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3WK-BVL

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Mary P Thomas
DC 1929: https://www.rootschat.com/links/01rbe/

Jesse A Thomas
DC 1919: https://www.rootschat.com/links/01rbc/

Albert P Thomas
DC 1937: https://www.rootschat.com/links/01rba/

Lucy E Thomas
DC 1948: https://www.rootschat.com/links/01rbd/

Alice Mary Patterson
DC 1955: https://www.rootschat.com/links/01rbb/
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 17:29 GMT (UK)

Son - Henry James Thomas born 1867 died 5 December 1903 - cancer of the stomach - - buried Greenwood Cemetery

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JK9K-ZVC

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-62Y7-KYZ?i=1306&cc=1320976&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AJK9K-ZVC

Sandra

Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 17:34 GMT (UK)

Marriage License for Joseph Thomas to Carrie Mulholland

The Philadelphia Times Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
17 Nov 1899, Fri    Page 11

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96178836/marriage-of-thomas-mulholland/

Sandra
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 17:38 GMT (UK)

1900 census Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3WZ-2NW

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DZY9-9GX?i=11&cc=1325221&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AM3WZ-2NW

Birth of a son Joseph Penrose Thomas - 5 November 1900

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBY4-22Z

Joseph Thomas -  born 1873 England -  died 19 October 1902 Philadelphia Pennsylvania (aged 29 years) Married
Burial Date 23 Oct 1902 Greenwood
Street Address:   Ward 19 2209 N Howard


Sandra
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 18:31 GMT (UK)


Joseph Penrose Thomas - son of Joseph Thomas and Carrie Mulholland.

The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
28 Jun 1985, Fri    Page 75

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96183535/obituary-for-thomas-penrose/

Sandra
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 18:33 GMT (UK)

Mary Irene (nee Bryan) Thomas - wife of Joseph Penrose Thomas

The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
18 Dec 1971, Sat    Page 26

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96183639/obituary-for-thomas/

Sandra
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 18:45 GMT (UK)
(now deceased) -

1940 census https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQX3-BT7

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9MY-SH7W?i=25&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AKQX3-BT7


Clinton Gordon Thomas -  Birth Date 23 Oct 1933 Baptism Date 24 Dec 1933 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Denomination Methodist - Frankford Avenue -  Methodist Episcopal Church - Father Penrose Thomas - Mother Mary Thomas.

1930 census - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH75-MKD

Sandra
Title: Re: Finding an Obit
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 22 February 22 18:51 GMT (UK)


FIND A GRAVE   also shows that Carrie Thomas died 1950 (believe that perhaps that was in Ohio.

Bruce Alvin Thomas 1926 - 1935

Forest Hills Cemetery Huntingdon Valley, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81997846/bruce-thomas

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81997846/bruce-thomas

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL3-YRPF

Sandra