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Charles Wilfred Cogswell death at Truro, Colchester County on March 5, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 2397

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 002397

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Colchester If in City or Town Truro
If death occured in a hospital or institution on highway

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Cogswell, Charles Wilfred

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE St. John, New Brunswick

9. DATE OF BIRTH 4  3, 1921

10. AGE in  Years49  Months11  Days2 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Sysco

12. Kind of industry Blast Furnace

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Annie Smith Cogswell

16. NAME of Father Ottis  Cogswell

17. BIRTHPLACE St. John, NB

18. NAME of Mother Susan Doner

19. BIRTHPLACE St. John, NB

20. Signature of Informant Wallace Smith

      address 429 Burchill Drive, Sydney, NS

      Relationship to deceased Brother in law

21. Place of burial Eastmount Cemetery, Sydney

      Date of burial March 9, 1971

22. Undertaker R.H. Fillmore Funeral Home Ltd., Sydney, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Respiratory Failure

(b) Multiple injuries-crushed chest, fractured ribs, torn lungs

(c) Automobile accident

other Accident: 2-car collision

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