March 2007 - Brother and Sister Dead

March 2007 - "Brother and Sister Dead"

Expired within ten hours, double funeral tomorrow

New Brunswick, NJ, Jan 3 - A brother and sister, who died within ten hours of each other, will be buried on Saturday. JOHN KIDNEY, a brother of former Fire Chief JAMES KIDNEY, of this city, had been ill for five months, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Stephen Whitford, in Brooklyn. He died at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. His brother and an undertaker went to Brooklyn to arrange for bringing the body here. When they left early in the evening Mrs. Whitford, who had nursed her brother faithfully and was heart broken at his death, was asleep.

This morning word was received that at 8 o'clock last night she awoke dangerously ill, and at 11 o'clock was dead.

John Kidney and Catherine Kidney Whitford were children of Patrick Kidney who settled in New Brunswick, Middlesex, NJ before 1850 after coming from Ireland. No evidence currently ties his family to that of Jan/John Kidney.

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