DEATH CERTIFICATE

WILLIAM SMITH

Date 24 December 1923
Cert:  31806
Place of Death: Voting Precinct:  Hazard Hospital, Hazard, Perry Co., Ky.
Full Name:  William SMITH
Sex, Color or Race, Marital Status:  Male, White, Married
Date of Birth:  (blank)
Age: 45 years
Occupation:  Deputy sheriff
Birthplace:  Cordie, Knott County, Ky.
Name of Father:  John COMBS
Birthplace Father:  Kentucky
Maiden name of Mother:  Millie SMITH
Birthplace Mother:  Kentucky
Informant/Address:  B. D. COMBS, Cordie, Ky.
Filed:  31 December 1923
Registrar:  J. P. Boggs
Death Date:  24 December 1923
I hereby certify that I attended deceased from 24 December 1923, to 24 December 1923, that I last saw him alive on 24 December 1923, and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at 11 p.m.
Cause of Death:  Shock (Homocide)
Duration:  (blank)
Contributory:  Loss of blood from gunshot wound
Signed/Address:  Hoskins & Wheeler, M.D.s, 29 December 1923, Hazard, Ky.
Where was disease contracted if not at place of death: Glomawr, Ky.
Former or usual residence:  (illegible--?transit?)
Place of Burial or Removal: Cornett Hill Cemetery Diablock, Ky. 
Date of Burial: 26 December 1923
Undertaker/Address:  W. G. Nicholson, Hazard
Transcribed by Debbie Tamborski, 20 March 2010