Sarah Slater's death certificate

[Susan Higginbotham]

Parenchymatous, I think. She died one day before Annie Weichmann.

Thanks! Chronic parenchymatous nephritis. One site says this is synonymous with Bright's disease, which killed Kate Chase Sprague as well.

Susan:

Are you absolutely certain this is in fact Sarah Slater's death certificate? If the estimated age at death (65 or even 66) is accurate, she would have been 10 or 11 in 1865 inasmuch as the date of the certificate is 1920.

John

Yes. As John Stanton pointed out when he traced her past 1865 a few years back, all of the family connections of Sarah Spencer point to this being the same person as Sarah Slater. The only thing that doesn't match is the age, and as Betty notes, this was a subject about which ladies felt free to be less than candid. (Shaving 10+ years off her age also was helpful if Sarah wanted to keep silent about her wartime past, which she apparently did.)