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Nelson Bernard Melanson death at Gilbert Cove, Digby County on July 22, 1970

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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