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Note: Clara Stitcher Cole visited her brother, George Washington Stitcher, at his summer home on Reese Avenue, Lavalette, N.J., ca. 1944. She may have been ill at that time. She passed on basic genealogical data to her brother's dtr-in-law, "Kitty" Gray Stitcher. The data was flawed and showed an ignorance within the family about its roots. It was, however, a starting point for the exploration of the Baltimore Stitchers.
She was in the hospital for one month and twenty-six days, after having spent twenty-five years in L.A., as a housewife. Personal data was supplied the Registrar by Jessie V. Collins, 1821 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, Ca. Clara had lived at 1914 Mellon Ave., L.A. At the time of her death, Clara was widowed. Attending physician was R.T. Bergman, M.D., 1216 Wilshire Blvd., L.A.
The principal error in Clara's Gen confused Peter Stichter, a Rev War veteran from Reading, Pa., with her grandfather John Stitcher's brother, Peter Stitcher, of Baltimore and Frederick. She did know that John Stitcher had been a cabinetmaker in Baltimore, since that information was in Maryland Historical Journals. It is not known why she did not know Eleanor Colgate was John Stitcher's second wife. She did visit with Mary Stitcher, eldest daughter of Peter Henry Clay Stitcher and Mary Ellen Cassell and Margaret, a younger Stitcher daughter. This revelation is from Mary's granddaughter, Edith Walker.
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