Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 1861
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 001861
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Guysborough If in City or Town Glencoe
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Greencorn, John Roland
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Irish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Canso
9. DATE OF BIRTH 11 11, 1917
10. AGE in Years52 Months3 Days13 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Woodsman
12. Kind of industry Lumbering
13. Date last worked 3 years prior to death 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Jessie Florence Trumble
16. NAME of Father David Greencorn
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Levidia Greencorn
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant John Greencorn
address Glencoe, Inverness Co.
Relationship to deceased Wife
21. Place of burial Vault in Antigonish
Date of burial 27 February 1970
22. Undertaker Nathan Rhynold
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Deep laceration, left side of neck
(b) Severed Carotid Artery
(c)
other accident - with power saw
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