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Joseph Ellsworth Melanson death at Digby, Digby County on March 2, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 2268

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 002268

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Digby If in City or Town Digby
If death occured in a hospital or institution at home

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Melanson, Joseph Ellsworth

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

French

7. Single, Married

separated

8. BIRTHPLACE Ashmore

9. DATE OF BIRTH 2  6, 1906

10. AGE in  Years65  Months0  Days24 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Laborer

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse

16. NAME of Father Henry Melanson

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Ella Melanson (nee)

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Evelyn Sias

      address Plympton RR 1 - Box 42

      Relationship to deceased Sister

21. Place of burial Plympton, Digby Co.

      Date of burial March 4, 1971

22. Undertaker Weymouth Funeral Home Ltd.

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Myocardial infarction

(b)

(c)

other

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