The 1928 death certificate for Belle M. Tinsley of Popular Bluff, Missouri, indicated she was fifty years of age at the time of her death. While there are blanks on the certificate to provide for more age precision (months and days), those details were not listed on the death certificate.
Belle could very well have been fifty years of age when she died in March of 1928. It is remotely possible that she died on her birthday. The more likely scenario is that the listed age of fifty was an estimate. Ages ending in a “0” are more likely to have been a guess on the part of the informant. It’s very possible that the informant indicated the deceased was “around fifty” and that was entered solely as fifty on the death certificate.
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