Date: Sunday, February 18, 1906Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) obtained on Genealogybank.com |
I'll be honest--I'm not a city kid, so I am not really certain what "carriages meet trolley" means, but I do know what interment at Penn's Manor means.
Searching for Watson was a little bit easier a I had his year of death and I knew that he resided in Philadelphia. With a last name like Watson, one has to have additional search parameters in order to have results lists that one can reasonably navigate. In this case, I did restrict my results to focus on hits from Pennsylvania newspapers.
Search screen on Genealogybank.com |
Next step is to find Hector in the 1900 census. City directories are also advised as I don't have those and urban research usually indicates that directories be accessed.