PROFILES IN OBSCURITY
 WHO IS BURIED IN THE NEW CASTLE COUNTY HOSPITAL (ALMSHOUSE) CEMETERY
AND FARNHURST POTTER'S FIELD??

​These profiles were created by Kathy Dettwyler based on online genealogical research (www.ancestry.com and www.familysearch.org) as well as newspapers stories about the individuals (www.newspapers.com).  They have been chosen to illustrate the variety of people who ended up being buried in the cemetery for different reasons.  Currently, these are in order simply by the order in which I researched then, but eventually I will be dividing them up into categories.  If you have any comments or concerns about the info in the profiles, send me an email at [email protected]
  

Manuel Bivins and Baby Bivins, African American, children of Charles Bivins and Mabel Congo            Bivins  
Albert Smith, d. 1892, white, accidental death, age 33
Moses Brooks, d. 1929, African American, senile debility, Almshouse resident, elderly, single
Harriet A. Chadwick, d. 1921, white, "cripple," Almshouse resident, daughter of William H.                    Chadwick
Elijah Hoy, d. 1908, white, opium poisoning/assault & choked to death on false teeth
Felix Bell, d. 1908, African American, from Norfolk, Virginia; accidentally killed by train
Louis H. Gross, d. 1914, African American, diabetic gangrene
Kazimez Wooblewski, d. 1909, white, suicide
Abe Riggs, d. 1927, white, at Almshouse seven years
Sarah E. Elbert, d. 1909, African American, died of syphilis and blood poisoning
​Joseph Bailey, d. 1902, shot and killed by an acquaintance in Dover, age 25
Samuel Waters, d. 1928, African American, resident of Almshouse for 8 years, age 80 - TB
Wm. Patterson & Jos. Jackson, d. 1892, African Americans, "skylarking" on the schooner Mary             Baxter and fell overboard and drowned, young men
Annie Caulk, d. 1917, African American, age 70, died of a stroke at the NCCH
(James) Alfred Frisby, Sr. & Jr., and Isaiah Frisby, d. 1927, African American, car accident
​Ruth Westbrook, d. 1925, African American, bladder cancer
Elizabeth Engram, d. 1919, African American, brain tumor
Joseph Manders, d. 1909, African American, elephantiasis
​Evelyn Kelsic & newborn, d. 1931, African American, age 17, eclampsia, along with her baby
Amanda Row Hammond, d. 1933, white/Jewish, cancer of the bowels, from a well-to-do family, has a sister buried in the DSH cemetery & another sister who died under mysterious circumstances
William Jenkin Harris, Jr., d. 1917, white, Spanish-American War 
Jerry Ivory, d. 1930, African American, age 57, intestinal obstruction
​Antonio Piacentini, d. 1932, Italian, age 77, chronic interstitial arthritis
​Karl Oiderman, d. 1928, Estonian, age 51, chronic encephalitis, sailor
Landren Blannen, d. 1893, African American, tramp, shot by another tramp
​Evelyn Coleman Matthews and Delaware Hearn (alias Harrison Bailey), 1932/1933, African Americans, she was murdered, he died of heart disease
​William Johnson, d. 1932, African American, died when his cabin "in the dumps" burned
Ferdinand Hunt, d. 1895, African American, 60-70, fell off railraod bridge, found frozen in ice
Bessie Roberts, d. 1894, African American, died of scrofula (TB of the lymph system in the neck)
Richard (Moses) Brooks and Robert Burgess