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Amanuensis Monday – Sampson Whitley – Death Certificate Transcription
SAMPSON WHITLEY – DEATH CERTIFICATE
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Place of Death – County – Hill
- Usual Residence: State – Texas County – Hill City – Itasca, Texas
- Name of Deceased: Sampson Whitley
- Date of Death: 5/8/54
- Sex: Male
- Color or Race: Colored
- Marital Status: Married
- Date of Birth: Nov 8, 1890
Age: 64
- 10a. Occupation: Labor
10b. Kind of business: None
- Birthplace: Texas
- Father’s Name: John Whitley Birthplace: Texas
- Mother’s Maiden Name: Unknown Birthplace: Unknown
- Not filled in
- Not filled in
- Not filled in
- Social Security No: Not filled in
- Informant: Ida Whitley
- Cause of Death: Malignancy (Lung) type unknown Interval between onset and death: 1 – 2 years
- Not filled in
- I hereby certify that I attended the deceased from Jan 1, 1954 to May 7, 1954, that I last saw the deceased on May 7, 1954, and that death occurred at 11 a.m. from the causes and on the date stated above.
- Signature – Charles C Allen Address: Box 67, Itasca, Texas Date signed: May 10, 1954
- Burial, Cremation, Removal: Burial 23b. Date: 5/11/54 Name of Cemetery or Crematory: Itasca Cemetery
- Location: Itasca, Texas
- Funeral Directors Signature: Kentard Funeral Home – Richard Hemphill
- Registrar’s File No. 226
- Date Rec’d by Local Registrar: May 10, 1954
- Physician’s Signature: G. Warnour (? – this was difficult to read.)
A three-day bout with a virus sent me to Ancestry.com to see what I could find to fill in the blanks in my family’s tree, and suddenly I was ‘on a roll’ finding my son-in-law’s and granddaughter’s ancestors!
Lucky me! My oldest granddaughter likes genealogy!