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Joseph Demilie Melanson death at Digby, Digby County on March 12, 1970
Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 2273
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 002273
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Digby If in City or Town Digby
If death occured in a hospital or institution Digby General Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Melanson, Joseph Demilie
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
French
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
9. DATE OF BIRTH 7 26, 1883
10. AGE in Years86 Months7 Days14 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Pensioner
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Lydie Melanson
16. NAME of Father Theophile Melanson
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Philomene Monteguay
19. BIRTHPLACE
20. Signature of Informant Neil Melanson
address Grosses Coques
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial Church Point
Date of burial March 15, 1970
22. Undertaker Deveau's Funeral Ser., Meteghan, per Francis Robichaud
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Sudden -- acute edema of lungs, congestive heart failure
(b)
(c)
other [illegible] he had a ca. of stomach but no autopsy was done
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