Harriet C Parsons

Married ca. 1927 in [New Jersey] to Harry J Wilson
Born 08 Feb 1909 in New Jersey
Died 29 Sep 1983 in Trenton, Mercer Co., New Jersey

Notes

• Harriet's age in the census records: in 1910, age 1; in 1920, age 10; in 1930, age 21.
• News report, Trenton Evening Times, 26 Apr 1937:
  Woman Killed As / Auto Overturns
  Husband of Victim Is In- / jured in Plunge—Other / Accidents
    Mrs. Harriet C. Wilson, 28 years old, of 14 Roosevelt Avenue, Mercerville, was fatally injured early today when a car driven by her husband, Harry J., swerved from the roadway on Hamilton Avenue near Nottingham Way, plunged down an embankment and overturned.
    Mrs. Wilson succumbed shortly after arrival at St. Francis Hospital. According to Dr. Henry J. Majeski, assistant county physician, she suffered a fractured skull and a fractured spine at the neck. Mr. Wilson was treated at the hospital for cuts of the head.
    Hamilton Township police report that Wilson was driving toward Mercerville directly behind the machine of Albert E. Hutchinson, 19, of 2500 Hamilton Avenue. When the latter made a lefthand turn into the driveway of his home, police say, Wilson pulled sharply to the side to avoid a crash and drove over a six-foot embankment.
    Fred Sharp, of 1611 South Broad Street, rushed the Wilsons to the hospital. Officers Applegate, Wood, Peterson and Cook, of the township force, later took Wilson and Hutchinson to police headquarters for questioning.
    Mrs. Wilson was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Parsons, of 129 Genesee Street. Besides her husband and parents, she leaves four sisters, Mrs. Carl Schaum, of Roebling; Mrs. Arthur Dennis and Mrs. George Brokaw, of Trenton, and Mrs. Conrad Gutbrodt, of Princeton, and a brother, Clarence Parsons, of this city.
    The funeral will be from the parlors of W. T. Saul & Sons, 3781 Nottingham Way, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Herbert H. Neale, of Broad Street M. E. Church, and burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday evening.
• Funeral report, Trenton Evening Times, 30 Apr 1937:
  Mrs. Harriet C. Wilson
    The funeral of Mrs. Harriet C. Wilson, of 14 Roosevelt Avenue, Mercerville, who was fatally injured when a car driven by her husband, Harry J., overturned on Hamilton Avenue early Monday morning, was held from the parlors of W. T. Saul & Son, 3781 Nottingham Way, yesterday afternoon. The Rev. Herbert H. Neale, of Broad Street M. E. Church, conducted services. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery.
    The bearers were Carl Schaum, Arthur Dennis, George Brokaw, Conrad Gutbrodt, William Morrow and James Brailey.

Sources

• 1910 - U.S. Census, New Jersey, Mercer Co., Trenton, Ward 11, E.D. 89, Sheet No. 22B [=80B], 349-353, 6 Jersey St., 28 Apr 1910
• 1920 - U.S. Census, New Jersey, Mercer Co., Trenton, Ward 9, E.D. 82, Sheet No. 8B [=64B], 146-171, 129 Genesee St., 02 Jan 1920
• 1930 - U.S. Census, New Jersey, Mercer Co., Trenton, Ward 10, E.D. 11-47, Sheet No. 15B [=54 verso], 282-294, 779 E. State St., 16 Apr 1930