File:Isaac Kershaw (1840-1894) death certificate.jpg

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• Name of deceased: Isaac Kershaw
• Age: 52 yrs
• Color: White
• Occupation: Pauper
• Married
• Birthplace: America
• Last place of residence: Franklin To., Somerset Co.
• How long resident in this State: 20 yrs
• Place of death: Franklin To.
• If in a city, give name and street and number; if in township, give name: Poor Farm
• Father’s name: Unknown
• Country of birth: Unknown
• Mother’s name: Unknown
• Country of birth: Unknown
• I hereby certify that I attended the deceased during the last illness and that he died on the 24th of Sept 1894, and that the cause of death was _____ Brights Disease
• Length of illness: Two weeks
• Howard Cooper, Medical Attendant
• Residence: Middlebush, N.J.
• Name of Undertaker: W.? ……
• Residence of Undertaker: Middlebush
• Place of Burial: Franklintown, ….. Potter’s Field

Notes[edit]

He is most likely the Isaac Kershaw that married the African American woman that is listed in the 1880 US census.

Poor farm[edit]

• http://cnhillsborough.blogspot.com/2019/10/hillsboroughs-poor-farm-1837-1947.html

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