The Coopers of Long Hill

Document F.139 · death certificate · transcription: active

PA Death Certificate File No. 95246 — Calvin C. Cooper, b. 31 Mar 1836 NJ, d. 7 Sept 1919 Northampton Co. PA, age 83y 6m 7d, Laborer, Widower. Parents given as Joseph Cooper (b. NJ) and Elsie Stackhouse (b. NJ); informant his son Samuel S. [Jones] Cooper of Portland PA. [verbatim]

repository
Pennsylvania Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics
identifier
State File No. 95246

Transcription and notes

Source

Element Value
Document type Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics — Certificate of Death
State File No. 95246
Registered No. 34 (local district)
Primary Registration District No. 3149 [partial reading]
Place of death County Northampton, PA; Township Portland(or "Washington" — cursive partial reading)
Date of death September 7, 1919at 8:30 AM
Date filed September 8, 1919
Local Registrar O. E. Beck (= attending physician; signs both the physician section and as Local Registrar)
Date of burial September 10, 1919
Place of burial East Bangor [Cemetery]
Undertaker Wm A Horton, Johnsonville PA
Local file (image held in the family archive) (maintainer-supplied 2026-05-20)

Personal and Statistical Particulars (verbatim from certificate)

Field Value
2. Full Name Calvin C. Cooper
4. Color or Race White
5. Single, Married, Widowed, or Divorced Widower
6. Date of Birth March 31, 1836
7. Age 83years, 6 months, 7 days
8. Occupation Laborer
9. Birthplace New Jersey
10. Name of Father Joseph Cooper
11. Birthplace of Father New Jersey
12. Maiden Name of Mother Elsie Stackhouse
13. Birthplace of Mother New Jersey
14. Informant (= signature with relation) Samuel S. Cooper, Portland [PA]

Medical Certificate of Death (verbatim)

"I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from June 15, 1916, to Sept. 7, 1919, that I last saw him alive on Sept. 3, 1919, and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at 8:30 AM.

The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows: Prostatitis & Chronic Cystitis(Duration: 3 yrs 5 mos)

Contributory (Secondary): Old Age(Duration: blank)

Signed: O. E. Beck, M.D. Sept 8th 1919 Address: Portland, Pa."

Reading note — age vs. birth-date

Age 83y 6m 7d at death (7 Sept 1919) back-calculates to a birth of ~28 Feb 1836, ~31 days off the stated birth date of 31 March 1836 (field 6). The explicit birth date is the more specific field.

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