Charleston, S.C. Department of Health 'Return of a Birth' — Amy FitzSimons Walker (Buzzie), March 20, 1910
Book 1, Page 403 ·1910–1940
Transcription
A printed Department of Health certificate filled in by typewriter. At the upper left a circular seal: City of Charleston, 1670. Beneath the seal: Leon Banov, M.D. / Health Officer.
City of Charleston, S.C. Department of Health No. 77/204
Return of a Birth Date filed: March 23, 1910 — 19—
- Full name of child (if any): Amy Fitssimons Walker [sic — typed with double S; the mother’s name in row 5 is correctly typed FITZSIMONS]
- Sex: Female — No. of child of mother: First
- Race or color: White — Date of Birth: March 20, 1910 (if not of white race) [blank]
- Place of birth: Roper Hospital
- Full name of mother: Amy Fitzsimons Walker (Maiden name): Amy Pickens Fitzsimons
- Mother’s birthplace: S. C.
- Mother’s residence: N. C.
- Full name of father: James P. Walker
- Father’s occupation: Civil Engineer — Birthplace: Va.
- Name & address of attendant: Allen J. Jervey, M. D.
Stamped diagonally across the right side of the form in red ink:
This is a correct copy from the original record. NOV 22 1940
[Signed] Leon Banov, M. D. Health Officer
AI Notes
A pre-printed birth certificate form from the City of Charleston, S.C. Department of Health, numbered 77/204, recording the birth of Amy ‘Buzzie’ Walker on March 20, 1910 at Roper Hospital — the first child of Amy Pickens FitzSimons (the album compiler) and James P. Walker, eighteen months after their October 1908 wedding (see page 386 for the marriage certification). The form was certified as a true copy on Nov. 22, 1940 and bears the embossed seal and signature of Leon Banov, M.D., Health Officer. Buzzie died fifteen months later (30 Jun 1911 at Weldon, NC) and is buried at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston. [high-resolution crops show the typed child’s surname is rendered ‘FITSSIMONS’ (with a double-S, no Z) — a typewriter operator’s misspelling on line 1, since the mother’s name on line 5 of the same form is correctly typed ‘AMY FITZSIMONS WALKER’. The ‘Mother’s residence: N.C.’ refers to the Walkers’ then-current home in North Carolina. The subject is the album compiler’s first child, who died in infancy — preserved in the family memory as ‘Buzzie’ (see other album pages for her photograph and grave marker). Canonical names in the people list use the standardized FitzSimons spelling.]
This is the official Charleston Department of Health birth certificate of Amy “Buzzie” Walker — the first child of the album compiler (Amy Pickens FitzSimons / Mrs. James Pickens Walker) and her engineer husband, born 20 March 1910 at Roper Hospital. The 1940 certified copy was presumably obtained for some family or estate purpose. Buzzie lived only fifteen months; she died 30 June 1911 in Weldon, NC and is buried at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.