Adeline Hennerichs

"Adeline Henricks [sic], 63 years, Charity hospital." - The New Orleans Item (New Orleans, LA), September 14, 1915, p. 11 (Deaths). [Charity Hospital in New Orleans was founded in 1736. The current hospital was closed following the damage sustained during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.]

New Orleans, Louisiana, Death Records Index, 1804-1949 (ancestry.com): Adeline Henerichs [sic], 63 (b. c1852), d. 14 Sep 1915.

Per original death certificate (from Louisiana State Archives), excerpt: "Be it Remembered, That on the day to-wit the Fourteenth of September in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred & Fifteen and the One Hundred and 40 of the independence of the United States of America, before me W. T. O’REILLY, M. D., Chairman Board of Health and Ex-Officio Recorder of Births, Deaths and Marriages in and for the Parish of Orleans, personally appeared A. Wolf an undertaker native of this city residing at No. 527 Elysian Fields Avenue who hereby declares that Mrs. Adeline Henerichs (White) a native of Mississippi, aged 63 years departed this life this day (14 Sept 1915) at the Charity Hospital in this city. Cause of death Diabetic Gangrene Gas Infection. Certificate of Dr. B. Tillery. Deceased was married and remains shipped to Mandeville, La."

Note: Date of birth is Dec 1853 per 1900 census (which, if correct, would make her 61 at the time of death); m. 25 Oct 1883 in St. Tammany Parish; 5 of 5 children living per 1900 & 1910 censuses.

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