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Margaret (Sister Mary Digna) McCormick
(1850 - 1934)
| STATE OF KANSAS
State Board of Health � Division Vital Statistics |
STANDARD
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH |
52 8497 | |
Township Deleware 1 Registered No. 80
or
City ____________ No. St Mary Academy St., ______Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2. FULL NAME: Sister Mary Digna (McCormick)
(a) Residence (Usual place of abode). No. St Mary Academy St. _____Ward.
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred __yrs. __mos. __ds.
How long in U.S. if of foreign birth? __yrs. __mos. __ds.
Was deceased ever a member of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States? ___
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3. SEX Female
4. COLOR OR RACE White
5. Single, Married, Widowed, or Divorced (write the word) Single
5a. If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of _________
6. DATE OF BIRTH (month, day, and year) Mch 17 1854 2
7. AGE 79 Years 11 Months 3 Days
OCCUPATION
8. Trade, profession, or particular kind of work done, as spinner, sawyer, bookkeeper, etc. Sister of Charity
9. Industry or business in which work was done, as silk mill, saw mill, bank, etc. ____________
10. Date deceased last worked at this occupation (month and year) _________
11. Total time (years) spent in this occupation _________
12. BIRTHPLACE (city or town) _________ (State or country) Pennsylvania
FATHER
13. NAME James McCormick
14. BIRTHPLACE (city or town) _________ (State or country) Dont know 3
MOTHER
15. MAIDEN NAME Dont know
16. BIRTHPLACE (city or town) _________ (State or country) Dont know 4
17. Informant St Mary Academy records
(Address) Leavenworth Kansas
18. BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
Place Mt Olivet Cem St Mary Academy Date 2/21/34
19. UNDERTAKER O'Donnell Und Co
(Address) Leavenworth
20. Filed 2/20/34 Edward A Schaaf Registrar.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
21. DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and year) Feb 19th , 19 34 ,
22. I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from 1925 , to 2/19/34 . I last saw h er alive on 2/19/34 , death is said to have occurred on the date stated above at 3:30 A-M .
The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows:
Arterio sclerosis 5 Date of onset 10 yrs
Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:
Senility 6 Date of onset ____
Name of operation ______ Date of ____
What test confirmed diagnosis _______ Was there an autopsy? no
23. If death was due to external causes (violence) fill in also the following: [...]
24. Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? _____
(Signed) A. J. Smith , M.D.
(Address) Leavenworth Kansas.
1 Should be Delaware.
2 Census records indicate Margaret was born in 1849 or 1850, not 1854.
3 According to his tombstone in St. Basil's Cemetery, Dushore, Sullivan, Pennsylvania, James was born in Rathangan Parish, County Kildare, Ireland.
4 Margaret's mother's name was Mary, her maiden name is unknown. She was born in Ireland.
5 Arteriosclerosis is generic term for several diseases in which the arterial wall becomes thickened and loses elasticity. In a strict medical sense, it defines the formation of plaques of cholesterol, platelets, fibrin, and other substances on the arterial walls which leads to progressive degrees of blockage of arterial circulation. Vascular disease, which affects the brain, heart, kidneys, other vital organs, and extremities, is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the USA and in most Western countries. Factors which may influence the build-up of plaque on the arterial walls include heredity, smoking, high blood pressure, age, a type A personality, an inactive lifestyle and high cholesterol diet.
6 In the strict definition of the word, senility is the mental and physical deterioration associated with old age. In common usage, however, the term refers only to mental deterioration, today more often called dementia. Until the late 1960s, arteriosclerosis was viewed as the major cause of senile dementia. This view changed when researchers established that large amounts of fatty deposits could be found in the brain's arterial walls of both demented and normal elderly individuals.
