DOCUMENTATION
- Marriage license application
- Marriage certificate
- Death certificate
- Franklin cemetery records
- Public Ledger obituary
- 1882 Gopsill's Philadelphia Directory
- 1890 Gopsill's Philadelphia Directory
- 1892 Gopsill's Philadelphia Directory
- 1896 Gopsill's Philadelphia Directory
- 1870 Federal Census - 1st enumeration
- 1870 Federal Census - 2nd enumeration
- 1880 Federal Census
- wife's obituary
- church letter for birth of daughter Margaret
- church letter for birth of daughter Frances
- church letter for birth of son John
- church letter for birth of daughter Mary
- church letter for birth of daughter Katherine
- Daughter Margaret's birth certificate
- Daughter Katherine's birth certificate
- Daughter Annie's death record
- Daughter Margaret's death certificate

*** no will found in Philadelphia

GENERAL INFORMATION
- Franklin Cemetary at Pelham & Elkhart Sts was later moved to Evergreen Memorial Park, Bensalem,
- Address on daughter Margaret's birth certificate in 1887 is the same as the address for a Robert Savage in the 1887 and 1889 city directory
- Richard is listed in 1896 city directory because the directories were typically correct as of the preceding October
- phthisis literally means a wasting disease but almost invariably will mean pulmonary tuberculosis.
It can be any debilitating lung or throat affections such as a severe

- Birth date on marriage application is 3/10/1864 which would make Sarah 22 years old instead of 18 years old when she would require the permission of her mother to get married

- Listed as widow of Richard in 1904 city directory

Cause of death
* "myocardial degeneration" is the degeneration of heart muscle
* "interstitial nephritis" is a kidney disorder caused by inflammation of the tubules and the spaces between the tubules and the glomeruli.
* "senile psychosis" term was used to cover a range of disorders of the aged characterized by memory impairment, stubbornness, irritability and a generally erratic pattern of affect.