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Elias Clayton. No. 26873.
Type of event: Lynchings
Location: Minnesota; United States
Document date:
Document type: Gov't Record(s)
Document subtype: Death Certificate
Documents: Elias Clayton. No. 26873.
Citation:
Minnesota. Department of Health.
Death Certificates. No. 26873, [June 1920].
Elias Clayton.
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STATE OF MINNESOTA
Division of Vital
Statistics
Certificate of Death
26873
No. in
Registration Book: 613
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
1. Place of Death
County: St.
Louis
City: Duluth
No. 2nd Ave. E. and 1st
St.
2. Full Name: Elias Clayton
Residence: Virginia [state of]
Length
of residence in city or town where death occurred: 2
days
3. Sex: Male
4. Color or Race: Black
5. Single, Married,
Widowed or Divorced: Single
6. Date of Birth: Unknown
7. Age: About
23
8. Occupation of Deceased
Trade, Profession or particular king of
work: Laborer
General nature of industry,...: Circus
Name of
Employer: John Robinson Show
9. Birthplace: Unknown
10. Name of
Father: Unknown
11. Birthplace of Father: Unknown
12. Maiden Name of
Mother: Unknown
13. Birthplace of Mother: Unknown
14. Informant: Grady
& Horgan
15. Filed: E.W. Fahey, M.D., Director of Public
Health
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF
DEATH
16. Date of Death: June 15, 1920
17. The Cause of
Death was as follows: Strangulation by hanging to light pole.
(lynched)
18. [Left Blank]
(signed) C.F. McCombs, M.D.
Duluth,
Coroner
19. Place of Burial, Cremation, or Memorial: Park Hill
Cemetery
Date of Burial: June 24, 1920
20. Undertaker: Grady &
Horgan
Address: Duluth