Not only did they not have the information about Ada Jones parent's names, but her age at time of death on the death certificate is incorrect as well. Every source that I have seen gives her birth year as 1873, that would have made her at least 48 at the time of her death in 1922, but the age shown on her death certificate is incorrectly stated as 40 years. Her date of birth is not shown on the Death Certificate. Makes you wonder about the circumstances of her death and who was present at the time to give the information to the Funeral Home preparing the personal information on Ada. The informant is listed as someone named Armstrong. That is not the name listed on the death certificate for her husband. I am surprised that a Town or City Clerk would even issue a death certificate without the required information such as a the date of birth. That is the law!! I wonder if this record could be updated and corrected at this late date. I suppose as in most cases of Death Certificate adjustments, it would take a sworn avidavit of next of kin to correct this. But I think we owe it the memory of this great lady to at least give it a try. In order to correct this, the acceptable party would need to submit certified originals of the proper forms required by the City or Town where the Death Certificate was issued. There is normally a fee for this service, but we would at least know that this last known legal document issued concerning this beloved entertainer is complete and correct as possible.
Bruce ----- 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
