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John Wilberforce Smith death at Amherst, Cumberland County on December 25, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 7389

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 007389

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cumberland If in City or Town Amherst
If death occured in a hospital or institution Highland View Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Smith, John Wilberforce

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Truemanville

9. DATE OF BIRTH 9  5, 1888

10. AGE in  Years83  Months3  Days20 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Farmer

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked 1970       14. Total years Life

15. If married name of spouse Myrtle Smith

16. NAME of Father Abel Smith

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Elizabeth Sherrill

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. John W. Smith

      address East Amherst, NS

      Relationship to deceased Wife

21. Place of burial Oxford, NS

      Date of burial December 28, 1971

22. Undertaker Furlong's Funeral Home Ltd.

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Congestive Failure

(b) Arteriosclerosis

(c)

other

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