This obituary taken from a paper in Philadelphia, PA, ?, 1911. I have the copy, but it is too old and fragile to try and handle it enough to copy it again here...I will note what they wrote:
Died...1911...Andrews, Suddenly, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Gazzam (Nellie), in Philadelphia, PA. On January 4th, Olivia Andrews, widow of Benjamin Andrews.
Funeral services from the parlors of F. Johnson & Son Co., no 1527 Washington Avenue, between Pryiania and St. Charles, this (Sunday) afternoon at 1 O'Clock.
(from the sound of this piece, it looks as though it might have been printed in a New Orleans paper, and that she may have been brought home to be buried in the Andrews plot there.)
11/20/11...NOTE: I show Death Certificates for BOTH Philadelphia, PA and New Orleans, LA. - Philadelphia, PA dated 4 January, 1911, and New Orleans, LA dated 6 January (with death noted as 4 Jan).
(personal guess here - I believe that Great GrandmotherOlivia died in Philadelphia, PA, but was transported to New Orleans, LA for her funeral and burial. I have the death certificates, but still no word on WHERE she was buried.) I continue my research.
Telegram, dated January 4, 1911, 11:56 p.m.
From Philadelphia, PA,
(sent from Lizzie's sister, Nell Andrews Gazzam (Mrs. Joseph Gazzam) re Olivia's death...
Miss Lizzie Walker, 310 East 13th St. Austin
"Mother passed peacefully away tonight at 10:50 - notify Fishers and Will Vining."
Lovingly, Nell
Final Update..."Found at long last"...
This information from Lake Lawn "Metairie" Cemetery in New Orleans, LA., regarding the Andrews family plot.
"the information that I have been able to find is that the property is in Metairie Cemetery...location Section "22" Lot "3-4"...per Metairie Cemetery main office, who sent me the following...
Interments in that plot are...
Benjamin Andrews Sr. 2/14/1910
Olivia A. "Annie" Vining Andrews 4/1/1911 (wife) (they forgot to put her name on the list they sent me)...
Mary Robinson 12/16/1940 (daughter)
Frank Butler 12/29/1944 (Susan's husband)
Susan A. Butler 2/26/1955 (daughter)
NOTE: I know that Olivia lived for some years after Benjamin died, and have a Western Union telegram stating that she died in Philadelphia. I had always assumed that she would be sent home to be interred with her husband, Benjamin.
FOUND: A picture of the headstone at the Andrews Plot, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana - was added in 2011 by Mr. Van Bender, of Find A Grave.com, and on that headstone it lists all the interred in the Andrews Plot, INCLUDING Olivia, Benjamin's wife. So, she passed away in Pennsylvania, and was returned to New Orleans to be interred with her husband Benjamin in the family plot. Finally...an ending to the years-long search I've carried on to find her final resting place.
Died...1911...Andrews, Suddenly, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Gazzam (Nellie), in Philadelphia, PA. On January 4th, Olivia Andrews, widow of Benjamin Andrews.
Funeral services from the parlors of F. Johnson & Son Co., no 1527 Washington Avenue, between Pryiania and St. Charles, this (Sunday) afternoon at 1 O'Clock.
(from the sound of this piece, it looks as though it might have been printed in a New Orleans paper, and that she may have been brought home to be buried in the Andrews plot there.)
11/20/11...NOTE: I show Death Certificates for BOTH Philadelphia, PA and New Orleans, LA. - Philadelphia, PA dated 4 January, 1911, and New Orleans, LA dated 6 January (with death noted as 4 Jan).
(personal guess here - I believe that Great GrandmotherOlivia died in Philadelphia, PA, but was transported to New Orleans, LA for her funeral and burial. I have the death certificates, but still no word on WHERE she was buried.) I continue my research.
Telegram, dated January 4, 1911, 11:56 p.m.
From Philadelphia, PA,
(sent from Lizzie's sister, Nell Andrews Gazzam (Mrs. Joseph Gazzam) re Olivia's death...
Miss Lizzie Walker, 310 East 13th St. Austin
"Mother passed peacefully away tonight at 10:50 - notify Fishers and Will Vining."
Lovingly, Nell
Final Update..."Found at long last"...
This information from Lake Lawn "Metairie" Cemetery in New Orleans, LA., regarding the Andrews family plot.
"the information that I have been able to find is that the property is in Metairie Cemetery...location Section "22" Lot "3-4"...per Metairie Cemetery main office, who sent me the following...
Interments in that plot are...
Benjamin Andrews Sr. 2/14/1910
Olivia A. "Annie" Vining Andrews 4/1/1911 (wife) (they forgot to put her name on the list they sent me)...
Mary Robinson 12/16/1940 (daughter)
Frank Butler 12/29/1944 (Susan's husband)
Susan A. Butler 2/26/1955 (daughter)
NOTE: I know that Olivia lived for some years after Benjamin died, and have a Western Union telegram stating that she died in Philadelphia. I had always assumed that she would be sent home to be interred with her husband, Benjamin.
FOUND: A picture of the headstone at the Andrews Plot, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana - was added in 2011 by Mr. Van Bender, of Find A Grave.com, and on that headstone it lists all the interred in the Andrews Plot, INCLUDING Olivia, Benjamin's wife. So, she passed away in Pennsylvania, and was returned to New Orleans to be interred with her husband Benjamin in the family plot. Finally...an ending to the years-long search I've carried on to find her final resting place.
This obituary taken from a paper in Philadelphia, PA, ?, 1911. I have the copy, but it is too old and fragile to try and handle it enough to copy it again here...I will note what they wrote:
Died...1911...Andrews, Suddenly, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Gazzam (Nellie), in Philadelphia, PA. On January 4th, Olivia Andrews, widow of Benjamin Andrews.
Funeral services from the parlors of F. Johnson & Son Co., no 1527 Washington Avenue, between Pryiania and St. Charles, this (Sunday) afternoon at 1 O'Clock.
(from the sound of this piece, it looks as though it might have been printed in a New Orleans paper, and that she may have been brought home to be buried in the Andrews plot there.)
11/20/11...NOTE: I show Death Certificates for BOTH Philadelphia, PA and New Orleans, LA. - Philadelphia, PA dated 4 January, 1911, and New Orleans, LA dated 6 January (with death noted as 4 Jan).
(personal guess here - I believe that Great GrandmotherOlivia died in Philadelphia, PA, but was transported to New Orleans, LA for her funeral and burial. I have the death certificates, but still no word on WHERE she was buried.) I continue my research.
Telegram, dated January 4, 1911, 11:56 p.m.
From Philadelphia, PA,
(sent from Lizzie's sister, Nell Andrews Gazzam (Mrs. Joseph Gazzam) re Olivia's death...
Miss Lizzie Walker, 310 East 13th St. Austin
"Mother passed peacefully away tonight at 10:50 - notify Fishers and Will Vining."
Lovingly, Nell
Final Update..."Found at long last"...
This information from Lake Lawn "Metairie" Cemetery in New Orleans, LA., regarding the Andrews family plot.
"the information that I have been able to find is that the property is in Metairie Cemetery...location Section "22" Lot "3-4"...per Metairie Cemetery main office, who sent me the following...
Interments in that plot are...
Benjamin Andrews Sr. 2/14/1910
Olivia A. "Annie" Vining Andrews 4/1/1911 (wife) (they forgot to put her name on the list they sent me)...
Mary Robinson 12/16/1940 (daughter)
Frank Butler 12/29/1944 (Susan's husband)
Susan A. Butler 2/26/1955 (daughter)
NOTE: I know that Olivia lived for some years after Benjamin died, and have a Western Union telegram stating that she died in Philadelphia. I had always assumed that she would be sent home to be interred with her husband, Benjamin.
FOUND: A picture of the headstone at the Andrews Plot, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana - was added in 2011 by Mr. Van Bender, of Find A Grave.com, and on that headstone it lists all the interred in the Andrews Plot, INCLUDING Olivia, Benjamin's wife. So, she passed away in Pennsylvania, and was returned to New Orleans to be interred with her husband Benjamin in the family plot. Finally...an ending to the years-long search I've carried on to find her final resting place.
Died...1911...Andrews, Suddenly, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Gazzam (Nellie), in Philadelphia, PA. On January 4th, Olivia Andrews, widow of Benjamin Andrews.
Funeral services from the parlors of F. Johnson & Son Co., no 1527 Washington Avenue, between Pryiania and St. Charles, this (Sunday) afternoon at 1 O'Clock.
(from the sound of this piece, it looks as though it might have been printed in a New Orleans paper, and that she may have been brought home to be buried in the Andrews plot there.)
11/20/11...NOTE: I show Death Certificates for BOTH Philadelphia, PA and New Orleans, LA. - Philadelphia, PA dated 4 January, 1911, and New Orleans, LA dated 6 January (with death noted as 4 Jan).
(personal guess here - I believe that Great GrandmotherOlivia died in Philadelphia, PA, but was transported to New Orleans, LA for her funeral and burial. I have the death certificates, but still no word on WHERE she was buried.) I continue my research.
Telegram, dated January 4, 1911, 11:56 p.m.
From Philadelphia, PA,
(sent from Lizzie's sister, Nell Andrews Gazzam (Mrs. Joseph Gazzam) re Olivia's death...
Miss Lizzie Walker, 310 East 13th St. Austin
"Mother passed peacefully away tonight at 10:50 - notify Fishers and Will Vining."
Lovingly, Nell
Final Update..."Found at long last"...
This information from Lake Lawn "Metairie" Cemetery in New Orleans, LA., regarding the Andrews family plot.
"the information that I have been able to find is that the property is in Metairie Cemetery...location Section "22" Lot "3-4"...per Metairie Cemetery main office, who sent me the following...
Interments in that plot are...
Benjamin Andrews Sr. 2/14/1910
Olivia A. "Annie" Vining Andrews 4/1/1911 (wife) (they forgot to put her name on the list they sent me)...
Mary Robinson 12/16/1940 (daughter)
Frank Butler 12/29/1944 (Susan's husband)
Susan A. Butler 2/26/1955 (daughter)
NOTE: I know that Olivia lived for some years after Benjamin died, and have a Western Union telegram stating that she died in Philadelphia. I had always assumed that she would be sent home to be interred with her husband, Benjamin.
FOUND: A picture of the headstone at the Andrews Plot, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana - was added in 2011 by Mr. Van Bender, of Find A Grave.com, and on that headstone it lists all the interred in the Andrews Plot, INCLUDING Olivia, Benjamin's wife. So, she passed away in Pennsylvania, and was returned to New Orleans to be interred with her husband Benjamin in the family plot. Finally...an ending to the years-long search I've carried on to find her final resting place.
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