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Death Certificate Margaret Reitter Nockamixon 1940 File 27086
Transcript and translation
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The record
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Transcription
Place of death: Bucks County; Nockamixon Township; residence Bucksville, Pa.; Registered no. / file no.: 18 / 27086; Full name: Margaret Reitter; Sex / color / marital status: Female / White / Married; Wife of: Nick Reitter; Date of birth: July 6, 1889; Age: 50 years, 8 months, 14 days; Occupation: House-wife; How long in U.S.: 26 [years]; Birthplace: Hungary; Father / mother: Unknown / Unknown; Informant: Catherine McCarty, Bucksville, Pa.; Date of death: March 20, 1940, 9:30 p.m.; Cause of death: Carcinoma of stomach; Operation: Gastro-jejunostomy, Jan. 1940; Physician: Edward E. Koone, Ottsville, Pa.; Burial: March 25, 1940; Haycock, Bucks Co., Pa.; Undertaker: Winfield Shuman, Bucksville, Pa.; Filed: Mar 23, 1940, David H. Diehl, registrar.
Plain reading
The certificate is in English; the entries above are the English reading, doubtful words in [brackets].
Notes
STATED for birth 6 July 1889, birthplace Hungary, parents unknown. Wife of Nick Reitter; informant Catherine McCarty.
Conflicts noted: Margaret, d. 1940, sits between Elizabeth (d. 1913) and Eva (d. 1951) as Nicholas's wives: three marriages on the record. Birth years (1884, 1889, 1887) differ per wife.