Sad news on a closer look at a Delaware Death Certificate

Posted by Paul Morris on Jul 13, 2014

Occasionally, Ancestry.com will send out an email saying I have new hints to review concerning a Family Tree that I have published online.  In this case, last week, it was about the Titus & Rachel Pollitt Family Tree.

One hint was for Laura A. Taylor who I recognized as the first wife of the  Rev. Charles W. Pullett,  Opening her Delaware Death Certificate and reviewing it once again for any additional information, I was caught by surprise.  Her cause of death on April 26, 1913 in Bridgeville, Sussex County, Delaware, was listed as Pistol shot Self inflicted. The informant was Chas. W. Pullett. listed as living in Bridgeville.  Her occupation was a housewife.  She was listed as having been born in Washington, D.C.  Her father was listed as Wm. Taylor, born Alexandria, Va and mother Mary.  The undertaker was listed as being in Bridgeville but she was interred in Washington, D.C.

Slowly but surely adding new information

Posted by Paul Morris on Jul 13, 2014

Last night I finally found Rev. Charles W. Pullett and his wife, Frances, son Charles Frost Pullett, his Beatrice, and their three children in Philadelphia.  The census had it down as Pullit but the Ancestry transcriber wrote Pullis.  I put in a correction. That is one feature I like about Ancestry in that you can correct transcription errors so that others can find things better.