HAGAN - On March 22, 1900, Annie M. Hagan, beloved wife of Peter P. Hagan and daughter of the late Joseph B and Anna M Freeman, aged 30 years. The relatives and friends of the family, also the members of the Cumberland M. E. Church and Betsey Ross Circle, Companions of the Forest, No. 413, and all other orders of which she was a member are respectfully invited to attend the funeral on Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock from her late residence, 3128 G street, Kensington Avenue and Clearfield streets. Proceed to Franklin Cemetery vault. Interment at North Cedar Hill Cemetery. (Philadelphia Inquirer, March 25, 1900.)

Record of her marriage was found to Peter Paul Hagan in 1892 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

I had thought it probable Mrs. Hagan had died as a result of childbirth - her death occurred March 22, 1900, and she had given birth to twin sons 12 days earlier on March 10, 1900. My guess may not be right; her death certificate states she passed of pneumonia, and I do not know if that could possibly connect to pregnancy or child-bearing, or if she may have been misdiagnosed.

The 1900 census shows that her widowed husband was raising a child Elmer who was born March of 1900. It cannot show the other twin son, Frank, who died of tubercular meningitis before the census. (Note: Frank appears as Frank on his city birth record and his tombstone, but as Francis on his death record.) Elmer would die later the same year of cholera infantum. A terrible year for Mr. Hagan with the loss of his wife and two sons.

The 1910 census shows Annie's husband as having fathered 4 children of whom 2 are alive. (His new wife Elizabeth has had zero children by this time, and never had any later.) Only his daughters by Annie, Iva Lillian and Amanda survived by this time, so we may surmise that the two missing children are twin sons Elmer and Frank, congruent with their death data, and who passed within months of their 30 year old mother Annie's death.