Great Aunt: Arlene Blake (3rd Child of Frederick & Annie Blake)

Arlene Blake

Through my earlier research I had not come across Arlene Blake.  We found these newspaper clippings among my great-aunts scrap books.  I have found out that she was the 3rd born child of  Frederick & Annie Blake (b September 28, 1902 d January 16, 1906).  

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A search of Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906 found this following potential match:

Birth record:  September 28, 1902 in East Hartford, CT.
Father: Fred
Mother:  Annie Blihl

I was able to obtain her birth certificate from the East Hartford Town Clerk's Office:

I certify the following return to be correct from the best information which I can obtain:

Full Name of Child:         Blake
Place of Birth:                  Town of East Hartford No. Hartford Ave Street
Date of Birth:                   28 day of Sept 1902 Sex of Child F
Name of Father:               Fred Blake
Residence of Father:        Town of E. Hartford No Hftd Ave Street
Birthplace of Father:        Canada State or Country
Occupation:                      Clerk Age 25 Color W
Maiden Name of Mother:  Annie Blehl
Birthplace of Mother: New York, NY Color W
Age of Mother: 22 Number of Child 3 Number Now Living 2

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We found two newspaper clippings - both undated and unknown newspaper.  I lost my copy of the 2nd one so wrote up what I had printed off...  Olean is a typo of her name, Arlene...

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BLAKE C
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Injured in Trolley .......   October at............ ove.
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Olean (typo) Blake, the ... year old daughter of F.C. Blake of 330 Lighthouse Road, died Wednesday at the West Haven sanitarium. The girl was the deaf mute child who was injured last October by being hit by a trolley car. She has been in serious condition ever since. Jan. 11 she was taken to the West Haven sanitarium and an operation was performed last Saturday.
Funeral will be held Saturday morning at 11 o'clock. Services will be at the home and the internment will be in the East Haven cemetery. Friends of the family ... are especially sympathetic toward the bereaved parents on account of the ... and unfortunate incident.
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I looked on the East Haven Trolley Museum website and they document a handful of fatal trolley accidents but this one is not listed.   Likely because, based on the first article, it seemed she would have been able to recover from her injuries. 

Here is one of the newspaper clippings announcing the funeral: