The file contains some scanned copies of death certificates for: Thomas Merton's mother, Ruth Jenkins Merton; and for this maternal grandparents, Samuel Adams Jenkins and Martha Caroline Baldwin Jenkins.
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If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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# | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
| y/m/d | Merton | | Scan ✉ | |
1. |
1921/10/03 |
other[x] |
Borough of Manhattan Department of Health of The City of New York [-] Name of Institution Bellevue |
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[death certificate for Ruth Merton, mother of John Paul and Thomas Merton]
«detailed view» |
2. |
1936/10/27 |
other[x] |
Borough of Queens No 50 Rushmore Rd, Douglaston LI Certificate No 7253 |
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[death certificate for Samuel Adams Jenkins, father of Ruth Jenkins Merton]
«detailed view» |
3. |
1937/08/13 |
other[x] |
Borough of Queens No 50 Rushmore Road, Douglaston Registered No 5847 |
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[death certificate for Martha Caroline Baldwin Jenkins, mother of Ruth Jenkins Merton]
«detailed view» |
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