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Elisa Bolamperti's death certificate describing the individuals who survive Elisa which include children and family members. The date of Elisa's death and the documents release is March 16, 1940, shortly before Italy allied with Nazi Germany.

Steve Odvody's death certificate. He died at the age of 81 on November 19, 1972 in Lincoln, Nebraska. He died of respiratory failure. This document explains the details of his life and death.

The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. This obituary tells of Julia Emma Kleber's death at the age of 37 of emaciation. Born in 1862 in Illinois, she married Albert Augutus Kleber…

The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. This obituary tells of Laura Pauline Riechers's death at the age of 17. As with other obituaries, the writer devotes much space to Laura's…

The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. This death notice tells of Maggie Eliza Schuetz's death in 1910, at the age of sixteen. Born in 1894, Maggie Eliza was most probably the…

The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. These two notices tell of Lucy (Lizzie) Schuetz's death of typhoid. Born in 1879, she was the seventh child in the family of Swiss…

Václav Karel asked for invalid pension on September 13, 1897 at the age of 58 due to rheumatism and disease of the digestive organs, lungs, liver, and kidneys.

After the Civil War the Pension Bureau grew quickly and created bureaucratic…

Anna Karel declared that she had been widowed in order to collect her husband's pension in 1920 at the age of 77. In the middle to late nineteenth century, the U.S. Pension Bureau had grown large compared to its pre-Civil War size. It created…