Joseph Harrold Obituary
The year 1908 proved to be a sad and tragic one for the Harrold family. On January 13, Joseph's sister-in-law, Elizabeth Mullen Harrold, the wife of his older brother John, died from a stroke. Seven months later, Joseph's spinster sister Margaret Harrold died from breast cancer. Then, three weeks after that, Joseph was visiting his Aunt Sarah Perry in Blairstown, a town west of Newark out near the border with Pennsylvania, when he died suddenly, on August 29. He was only 54 years old. They were all buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
From the Monday, August 31, 1908 edition of the Newark Evening News newspaper.
From the Newark Sunday Call newspaper, dated September 6, 1908.
The funeral of Joseph Harrold, who died a week ago yesterday in Blairstown, this state, where he was visiting his aunt, Mrs Sarah Perry, was held on Tuesday morning at 8:30 o'clock from his late residence, 19 Summit street, Newark, to St Patrick's Cathedral, where a high mass of requiem was sung by the Rev. Father Brennan.
