Names:
given: Wilbert M.
aka: Wilber, Wilbur
surname: PARSONS
Birth 1
date: March 1897
place: New York
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Death 3
date: 1903
age: 6 years of age2
place:
cause: membraneous croup2
Burial3
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place: Rocky Hill Cemetery, Montgomery Avenue, Rocky Hill, New Jersey. Grave is along the fence on left side of cemetery, approximately half-way up the entrance drive.
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Documents:
1. Arthur Parsons household, U.S. 1900 census, Warren County, New York, Queensburytown, enumeration district [ED] 105, supervisor's district [SD] 5, sheet 20, dwelling 491, family 500; downloaded from Ancestry.com, Image#41.
The only census that shows Wilber in the Parsons family lists his birth date as March 1897 with his birth being in New York. In 1900 the Parsons family, which included Arthur, Anna, and Wilber's brother, Victor who was a year old, lived at 14 Roberts Avenue in Queensbury, New York. Wilber's dad was working as a brick moulder.
2. Wilbur Parsons obituary, unknown newspaper, 1903.
Wilbur Parsons, aged six years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Parsons of Rocky Hill, N.J., died yesterday of membraneous croup, after an illness of but twenty-four hours. Mr. and Mrs. Parsons were formerly of Glens Falls.
3. Wilbert M. Parsons gravemarker, Rocky Hill Cemetery, Rocky Hill, New Jersey; {photographed by Lorraine Rechten, May 2003.}
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