Ada (Edith) Kuntze's Certificate and Record of Death
In the lower left side of the document above, it shows that Edith was living
for one month at 620 92nd Street, basically the time she spent at the hospital.
I have been unable to determine the meaning of this entry.
Name: Edith Kunzer
Date of death: March 24, 1912
Age: 22 years (She was actually 21)
Usual residence: 620 92 St., Brooklyn, NY
Length of residence at this residence: 1 month
Length of residence in New York City: Life
Marital status: Single
Occupation: Housework
Birthplace: U.S.
Father's name: Albert Kunzer; Germany
Mother's name: Bertha Roberts; Germany
Place of death: Kings County Hospital
Cause of death: Erysipelas Fasclitis
Time from attack until death: Feb. 25, 1912 to March 24, 1912
Cemetery: Evergreens
Date of burial: March 27, 1912
Undertaker: William Hecker, 1092 De Kalb Ave, Brooklyn
Although born as Ada Kuntze, her death certificate identifies her as Edith.
I have no idea why her mother's name is Bertha Roberts. Ada/Edith's father, Albert Kuntze, died in 1897. Bertha may have remarried someone named Roberts. By the time Bertha dies in 1923, her last name is Wilson.
On the 1910 census, Edith is listed as living with her Aunt Amelia Leier and her children. In February 1912, she was 21 years old and unmarried when she prematurely gave birth to a baby girl named Katherine. The father of baby Katherine was a man named John J. Sullivan. Edith had contracted Erysipelas Fasciitis, a flesh-eating skin infection, while she was pregnant. Mother and daughter lingered several weeks in Kings County Hospital until Katherine died from malnutrition on March 23. Basically, she starved to death because her mother was not able to offer her sustenance. Edith died the next day on March 24. They were buried together in the same unmarked plot at Evergreens Cemetery with Edith's grandmother Louise Pubanz Nowasky and where her mother Bertha would go when she died in 1923.
To go directly to Edith's "Cause of Death" page, click here.
