Death Notice of Robert WELLS (1901); Cecil Co., MD

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Cecil Whig
Elkton, MD
Sat., March 2, 1901
Front Page
 
Gypsy Chief Dead.
 
"Robert Weld [should be Wells], the chief of several bands of gypsies, which for 
years have traveled this peninsula, died near Warwick [Cecil County, MD], last 
Saturday, aged 95 years.  The body was taken to Wilmington on Monday, and placed 
in a vault in the [Wilmington and] Brandywine Cemetery, to await formal 
interment in the family lot in May."