COUNTY OF PORT HUME — CERTIFICATE OF DEATH Form 1914-A
Name of Deceased: CORNELIUS ALBRIGHT THORPE. Sex: Male. Color: White. Conjugal: Married. Age at Last Birthday: 64 years, 3 months, 21 days. Occupation: Industrialist; President, Blackwell Iron Works. Residence: No. 411 The Crescent, Port Hume.
Place of Death: Residence. Date of Death: 12 September, 1919, at 11:42 p.m., approximately. Date of Attending Physician's Last Visit: 12 September, 1919.
IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF DEATH: Heart failure (myocardial infarction presumed). CONTRIBUTING CAUSE: Atherosclerosis; chronic indigestion of recent acute presentation; exertion. DURATION OF ILLNESS LEADING TO DEATH: Six days.
Was autopsy performed? No. Was death sudden? No — presented as collapse following evening meal; attended by physician.
Funeral Director: Mersey & Wollaston. Clergy Officiating: Rev. Jas. Tanner, D.D., First Presbyterian. Place of Burial: Rosewood Cemetery, Port Hume, family plot.
Informant: Mrs. Ottilie Thorpe (widow).
I hereby certify that I attended the deceased from 7 September, 1919, until the hour of his death; that I last saw him alive on the 12th of September, 1919; that death occurred on the date and hour stated above, and from the causes stated.
Signed, David Linden, M.D. No. 14 The Crescent, Port Hume License No. 2811
Filed with the County Recorder, 13 September, 1919, by C. Wollaston, Funeral Director.