Perhaps the most horrific one is Arthur Fields (Burned to death in Conflagration). The sadest one is Ada Jones, died at age 40, and none of the informants (relatives) knew the names of the parents of this wonderfully talented and popular star of her time, to put on the Death Certificate. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Barna" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:34 AM Subject: [Phono-L] Artist Death Certificates
Howdy, I just got done posting about 95% of my collection of phonograph artist death certificates. If you ever wondered when some of your favorites died, or what they died of, or what some of their real names were, or their parents, or where they're buried, or if they were cremated, these death certificates are a great source of information! I have not had a chance to document some of the mistakes found on the certificates themselves, or type out some of the hard-to-read handwriting (I hope to do both within the next week or so), but this is such a fine collection that I couldn't wait to show you. I think you'll find them fascinating in a sad manner. The URL is: http://www.phonostalgia.com/death and here's the first 21 certificates I've posted so far: Frank P. Banta Arthur Collins Vernon Dalhart Will F. Denny Edward M. Favor Arthur Fields George Gaskin Billy Golden Byron G. Harlan William F. Hooley George W. Johnson Ada Jones Jack Kaufman Harry Macdonough Billy Murray Steve Porter Dan W. Quinn Bob Roberts Joseph C. Smith Frank C. Stanley Walter Van Brunt And there's more certificates to come in the next few months. Be sure to check out some of the other things I posted. A few days ago, I added a new section covering the story behind the obscure bandleader, Joseph C. Smith, and just today I posted some photographs of Arthur Collins' grave. Stay tuned, -Ryan _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_042008_______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
