Death Notice of Joseph Casper Miller

German-language newspapers can provide valuable genealogical information, such as this death notice for Joseph Casper Miller:

“Es starb [Joseph Casper Miller],” Der Deutsche Correspondent (Baltimore, Maryland), 3 June 1897, p. 2, col. 3; microfilm NP 2267, Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland.

Es starb

Plötzlich am 1. Juni 1897 am Schlagfluss Joseph

Casper Miller im 25. Jahre seines Lebens.

Die Beerdigung findet heute, den 3. Juni,

Morgens [19?] Uhr, von seiner letzten Wohnung, Kr.

19, Süd-Arlington-Avenue, aus und dann nach der

vierzehn heiligen Rothhelfer-Kirche statt, wo ein

Todtenamt für das Heil seiner Seele celebrirt wird.

It died

Suddenly, on June 1st, 1897 of apoplexy Joseph

Casper Miller in the 25th year of his life.

The funeral will be held today, June 3rd,

in the morning 9 o’ clock, from his last residence, No.

19 South Arlington Avenue, and then to the

Fourteen Holy Martyrs Church, where a

requiem mass will be celebrated for the health of his soul.

[Thanks to Susannah Brooks for her assistance in this translation.]


Debra A. Hoffman, "Death Notice of Joseph Casper Miller," Ancestral Leaves, posted 26 April 2014 (http://ancestralleaves.blogspot.com : viewed [date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]