San Diego County Deaths

Sylvester GILSON

Submitted by Dianne July 2, 2008

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Transcription of Death Certificate at the County Clerk’s Office in El Cajon, 
San Diego Co, CA [copied as written]

Name: Sylvester GILSON

Make, white, widower

Birth date: Jul 1833, b. in NY

Death date: 5 Feb 1921

Place of death: San Diego Conty General Hospital, San Diego, San Diego Co., CA

Last occupation: storekeeper

In death county: 15 yrs; In CA: 50 yrs

Father: Simon GILSON, b. in NY

Mother: Unknown name, b. in PA

Spouse: Louisa T. or F. Gilson

Informant: B. Pinney, SD County Hospital

Cause of death: myocarditis; senility

Date of burial: 8 Feb 1921

Where buried: J.A.R. Cemetery [hard to read]; soldier, Mt. Hope Cemetery, San Diego, CA

Funeral director or undertaker: J. F. Barkley, 1466 4th St.

[FYI - Mount Hope Cemetery - ph 619 527-3400