Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4671
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004671
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Digby If in City or Town Gilbert Cove
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Melanson, Nelson Bernard
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
French
7. Single, Married
single
8. BIRTHPLACE Gilbert Cove
9. DATE OF BIRTH 10 13, 1907
10. AGE in Years62 Months9 Days9 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Gifford Melanson
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Fannie Comeau
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Louis E. Melanson
address Gilbert Cove, Digby Co.
Relationship to deceased Brother
21. Place of burial Plympton
Date of burial July 25, 1970
22. Undertaker Weymouth Funeral Home Ltd., Box 24, Weymouth
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Bullet in heart
(b) Suicide
(c)
other
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