On Ancestry.com, in the Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003, I found a brief news story about his death in The New York Times on February 9.
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| Ancestry.com, Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006), www.ancestry.com, Database online. Record for James Tolman Pyle, The New York Times, p. 9, 9 February 1912 |
His death notice is listed in four consecutive issues of The New York Times, from February 9-12. The February 11 issue includes a notice to veterans of the Seventh Regiment, N.G.N.Y. to attend his funeral. It looks like I need to do a bit of exploration into the N.G.N.Y. 7th Regiment, since both James and his brother, William, were members.
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| Ancestry.com, Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006), www.ancestry.com, Database online. Record for James Tolman Pyle, The New York Times, 11 February 1912 |
At Old Fulton NY Post Cards website, I found a slightly longer obituary from the New York Sun, which has a few errors: his home was 673 Fifth Avenue, and he was 56 (almost 57) years old.
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| 9 February 1912, page 7, col. 5. James Tolman Pyle Obituary., New York Sun, New York, New York, online images (http://fultonhistory.com). |
Also at Old Fulton NY Post Cards website, I found another obituary from the New York Herald with a more dramatic description of his death.
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| 9 February 1912, page 7, col. 4. James Tolman Pyle Obituary., New York Herald, New York, New York, online images (http://fultonhistory.com). |
And now I know why I haven't been able to find a death certificate for him in New York; he died in Edgewater, which is just over the Hudson River in New Jersey. And New Jersey is not an easy state from which to obtain vital records.
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