Brain

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

we the under named jurors do find in accordance with the opinion of Dr. S. S. Knight. By disease most probably epilepsy caused her death.

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon there oaths, That after a thorough examination of the body we find no marks of violence or bruises on the body, we after a full examination of the testimony we are of opinion that the Deceased came to her death by appoplectic fit or some suffocation.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death by the act of God.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oathes do say that the Aforesaid W W Rodgers came to his death on this 7th day of Jan, about 8, 10 Oclock AM, at Clinton, S.C. from Hemorhage and Blood Clot on the Brain.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid Nash Ferguson came to his death on the 23d day of May AD 1883 in Laurens County from general condition of the brain and blood clots on the brain

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that on the 17th day of November 1882 Fanny Sullivan came to her death by a disease of the Heart and appoplexy.

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say that the deceased came to her death at her Brother, Ben Davis in Fairfield County SC the 12 day of Sept 1898 from natural causes[.]

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say that the deceasd came to her death at the home of Joe Jackson the 21st of Aug 1892 from some Natural Causes[.]

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that in their opinion George Jefferis came to his death from appoplexy

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that Rachel Manigon[?] died from a stroke of apoplexy on the 4th of Apr. A.D. 1887, at her home on the plantation of J.B. [?][.]

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