WILSON FITZGERAL OBITUARY, CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY Copyright (c) 1999 by Vincent Edward Summers . ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submittor has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************************ -------------------- An Obituary (unknown newspaper) for Wilson FITZGERALD, of Camden City, NJ: LAST RITES OVER WILSON FITZGERALD There was a large attendance of old and well known citizens and members of the Masonic fraternity at the funeral of Wilson Fitzgerald, at the family home, 48 York street, this afternoon. As a man who had built himself up from a poor lad to a citizen crowned with years and honor, there was a big outpouring of mourning friends to pay the last sad tribute at his bier. The body, clad in black, reposed in a handsome black cloth-covered cedar casket, with gold and ebony trimmings. The [r]eligious services were conducted by Rev. Edward Dillon, a retired Presbyterian minister, of Woodbury, and Interment made in North Laurel Hill Cemetery, under the auspices of Funeral Director Fithian Simmons. Members of Camden Lodge, No. 15, of which Mr. Fitzgerald was one of the three oldest members, attended in a body and sorrowfully stood about the graveside in Laurel Hill while the solemn rites of the order were performed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: Wilson Fitzgerald was born February 26, 1819 Northern Liberties, PA. died June 07, 1905 Camden, New Jersey wife Joanna Colhouer