Animal

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

upon their oaths do say that the said Prophet Goodman came to his death on the 24th day of May AD 1884 from being torn and lacerated by a sow hog, which sais tearing and lacerating was done on N A Greens place in Laurens County And so the jurors aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid do say that the aforesaid Prophet Goodman came to his death by mischance or accident.

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

Upon their oaths do say, That he died from the rupture of the left auricle of the heart. . .caused from a tussel with a young horse

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

upon there oaths do say that the deceased Abram came to his death by being bitten twice by a snake

Description: 
youth
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
mule
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death by the kick of a mule the property of the Father of the deceased

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

do say upon their oaths that the said Danchsson[?] gault . . .died by the vissation of god by accident [?] kiled[?] by his horse and plans[?]

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

upon their oaths do say that the said Wilson Harris came to his death by accident caused by being run over or against by a horse ridden by John W. Wright in a race being run on the old race track at Gaffney City ... said accident being caused by his (the deceased's) own carelessness

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

upon their oaths do say that the said Joseph D. Reasonover came to his death from a kick received from a horse on his breast or stomach

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

do say that the aforesaid George West came to his death by wounds inflicted by the tusks of an Elephant

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