Smyrna times., 1924-04-23
DEATH RECORD OF THE WEEK
E. Wilmer Collins, Son of the Late DIR.
w. T. Collins, Former Smyrnian
Dies at Camden, n. J.,-Others


prominent citizen of Camden, N. j.,
son of the late DR.. William T. Col
Inns and Mrs. Rachel (Hoffecker) Col
Inns, for many years a resident of
Smyrna, died at his home, 622 Benson
street, Camden, N. j., Saturday, of
pneumonia. He had been in failing
health several months. The announce
ment of his death was received with
sorrow by his Smyrna relatives and
friends. The deceased was .afn in
Smyrna, August 25, 1868, and was ed
ucated in the Smyrna Schools. He
entered early in his young nanhood,
the drugstore of his uncle, the late
James P. Hoffecker, where he learned
the drug business. When he was 25
years of age he moved with his par
ents to Camden, n. J. For seventeen
years he conducted a drugstore at
Third and Arch streets, Camden. He
retired from that business eleven
years ago. He then entered the city's
employ as an accountant in the comp
troller's Office, which position he main
tanned until his appointment several
months ago by Commissioner Mel
bourne F. Middleton, Jr., as deputy di-
rector. Early in the beginning of the
year he was confined to his bed from
illness. Efforts of physicians proving
unavailing in restoring him to normal
health, they recommended a sea trip.
Accompanied by his wife, he went to
Bermuda. He returned home after a
short time, taking up anew his duties
in the revenue and finance department
Last week he caught cold and rapidly
contracted pneumonia, which confined
him to his bed Thursday. Mr.. Collins
was a past master of Trimble Lodge
of Masons, and was for many years
its secretary. Of recent years he had
held no Office in any lodge owing to
his infirmity. He also was formerly
a district deputy grand master of the
State Order of Masons. One of the
first members of the Camden Lodge
of Elks, he was for a number of years
secretary in that order. On Novem-
Der 25, 1891 he married Miss Jennie
Ambruster, daughter of the late John
| Ambruster, a well-knOwn Camden
builder and contractor. She survives
him with a son, w. Rowland Collins,
J of Chicago, who was with his father
at his death, and a daughter, Miss
Mabel Hoffecker Collins, of Camden.
+ Funeral services were conducted this
( wednesday, morning at Ii o'clock at
| his home by Rev. Thomas S. Brock,
pastor of the First Methodist Episco-
pal Church, Sixth and Stevens streets.
Interment was in the Harleigh Gene
terry.
Sudden Death of Mrs. c. H. MattifOrd
Mrs. Susanna Anderson Mattiford
aged II, widow of Charles H. Matti-
ford, died Monday morning at
o'clock at the home Of her daughter
Mrs. Fred Denney, at 938 Penne
Street, Chester, Pa She had beer
failing for sometime with hear
trouble and was seized with an attack
of inflammation of the heart Friday
preceding her death. She was borI
and raised in this vicinity and in early
life married Charles H. MattifOrd, ;
well-known farmer of this vicinity. HI
died in August 1920. Three children
survive: Mrs. Walter Lord and Mrs
Fred Denney, of Chester, Pa; ant
Walter H. Mattiford, Smyrna. Fun
eral will axe place tomorrow, Thurs
day afternoon at 2 o'clock from tn
residence of her son, Walter H. Mat
5 tiford in West Smyrna, in charge o
Rev. J. J. Bunting and interment vii
be in the family lot in Odd Fellow
) Cemetery.
Death of Charles B. Daley
Charles B. Daley, aged 70, died a
his residence on South COmmerc
Street, Saturday afternoon at 3.45, al
> ter a long illness. He had been con
fined to the house for three years an
had not worked for seven years. Nj
:, Daley was born in Belfast, lrelanC
: in 1854, and came to this country !
1873, first locating near Newburl
!. N. Y, and then in Bucks County, Pa
. and in 1876 moved to Delaware
/, take possession of the old Crowle
= Farm, near "The Tent, which he pul
= chased A year or two later he move
= to Smyrna and followed his trade
carpet weaving until disabled seve
!. years ago. He was a staunch Repul
. lican but never held Office. He W;
" married twice. His first wife Wa
2 Miss Susan Marion of Ireland. ST
= died in 1889. OF this union two chi
- dren survive: John B. Daley of IL
- New York Ship Building Compan
- Camden, N. j., and William A. Dale
i Smyrna. Emily, a daughter, wife
is George w. Cunning, died in 1912, al
- Charles H. Daley, another son, di'
II in 1917. His second wife was Mi
Rosa Newnum, who survives him wi
one son, Albert E. Daley of Chestt
" Pa. Funeral services took place ye