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Edward Hughes Major death at Beaverbank, Halifax County on February 14, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 1763

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 001763

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Halifax If in City or Town Beaverbank
If death occured in a hospital or institution Scotia Nursing Home

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Major, Edward Hughes

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Lower Sackville

9. DATE OF BIRTH 8  5, 1889

10. AGE in  Years81  Months6  Days9 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession

12. Kind of industry Retired

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Annie

16. NAME of Father Thomas Hughes Major

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Harriett 

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Shirley Major

      address Lower Sackville

      Relationship to deceased Niece

21. Place of burial St. John's Cemetery, Lower Sackville

      Date of burial February 16, 1971

22. Undertaker R.D. Lindsay Funeral Home Ltd. Bedford

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Myocardial Infarction

(b) Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease

(c)

other

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