Someone contacted us through new.familysearch.org, and gave us Truman Dodge's death certificate.
The official death date on the certificate is February 21, 1948.
His age at death is listed as 82y, 11m, 16d, which would put his birth date as March 5, 1865 (and this date is listed on the certificate, as well.) However, since this is a death certificate, not a birth certificate, I'm not putting this date in new.familysearch.org until it's been confirmed by another document.
The death certificate states Truman's date of burial as April 12, 1948. If this date is correct, that means he didn't get buried for almost 2 months. We're thinking this delay might have been for an investigation or autopsy, because the family suspicion is that he was murdered for his pension check.
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The death certificate was uploaded to Family Search. According to the obituary, he went missing in February and his body was found April 9, 1948.That is why the burial was delayed. Truman suffered from dementia, and the coroner gave Exposure as the cause of death. He was not murdered for his pension check.
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