One-year-old Emelia Bundy died this day, January 20th, in 1823 of Whooping Cough and was buried at Bethel Burying Ground. She lived with her parents, Solomon (waiter) and Sarah (day work), at 14 Elizabeth Street which was eventually became 614 Delancey Street in the Society Hill section of the city. In 1909, this street was demolished for the erection of the new George A. McCall Public School pictured below. According to the 2 June 1918 edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the school was built “on the ruins of what was then a district where crime and distress ruled together.”
McCall Public School – From the Free Library of Philadelphia Collection
Bethel Burying Ground Project 