White male, about 60 years old and single at the time of his death from apoplexy on 26 June 1920. Born in Germany, he had been in the city for 10 years. He was a resident of the Escambia County Poor Farm at the time of his death, and the informant on the death certificate was J.R. Steward, the superintendent of the Poor Farm. His occupation was given as laborer. He was buried in the Escambia County Poor Farm cemetery by F.R. Pou.
Philip Blowell appeared in the 1920 census as an inmate of the Poor Farm. He was 59 years old, his citizenship status given as “alien” (unnaturalized). He and both parents were born in Germany, and his occupation was given as “none.”
I believe Philip’s German name is not spelled correctly in Poor Farm records and, thus, his death certificate. Using a German spelling has brought promising but inconclusive results: In the 1910 census, a man by the name of Philip Blaul, 50 years old, born in Germany, was living and working as a laborer in the household of Milton Wait, farmer, in Hinckley, Medina County, Ohio. His immigration date was given as 1885, and his parents were born in Germany. He was single. I strongly suspect this is Philip Blowell, but more research would be needed to confirm that (and what in the world brought him to Pensacola very soon after that census?). [The 1900 census shows him, spelled “Bloul,” in the same household, 40 years old, with a birthdate in June 1859.]
German records show a Philip Blaul born 2 June 1860, baptized 10 June 1860, in Gönnheim (BA. Dürkheim) Bayern, Germany. His father was Georg Peter Blaul and his mother Maria Elisabeth Knauf. Is this our Philip? The dates match, but I hesitate to say decisively without further documentation.
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Florida Certificate of Death No. 6681, Florida Deaths, 1877-1939. Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data:Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Year: 1910; Census Place: Hinckley, Medina, Ohio; Roll: T624_1205; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 0133; FHL microfilm: 1375218. Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Year: 1900; Census Place: Hinckley, Medina, Ohio; Roll: 1302; Page: 3; Enumeration District: 0043; FHL microfilm: 1241302, Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.
Ancestry.com. Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
Bavaria, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1556-1973; Custodian: Zentralarchiv Der Evangelischen Kirche Der Pfalz, Speyer; Film Number: 193867.