Act of God

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
lightning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say That the said John Smotherman Berry Campbell and Sandy Purvis came to their deaths by accident at the Turpentine Camp of A B Reid . . . By Lightning.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
lightning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say That the said John Smotherman Berry Campbell and Sandy Purvis came to their deaths by accident at the Turpentine Camp of A B Reid . . . By Lightning.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
lightning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say That the said John Smotherman Berry Campbell and Sandy Purvis came to their deaths by accident at the Turpentine Camp of A B Reid . . . By Lightning.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
tree fall
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: That N.C. Smith came to his death by a tree falling on him causing instant-death this happening on the plantation of N.S. Smith, on the 18th day of July 1871

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
lightning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: that Charity Goldplate came to her death from Stroke of lightning

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
lightning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do Say: . . . that the aforesaid Lucy Roper came to her death by a Stroke of lightning

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
tornado
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that Manerva Sanders came to her death. . .by a Storm or Cyclone. . . blowing down a house in which she Was in and the falling timbers Kill her

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
lightning
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon there oaths that he was killed by Lighting during a Thunder storm

Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
lightning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that . . .Roanoake came to his death from being struck with lightning

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
lightning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Landrum Hopper came to his death from the effects of a stroke lightning in the field of Truman S. Weber where he had been ploughing

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