Brain

Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do on their oath say that they believe she died of an apoplectic fit, the visitation of God

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

do say upon their oaths that. . .he came to his death by an act of God being subject to something like a apoplexy for some time previous to his death

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

upon their oaths do say that the deceased Alexander Moore came to his death from the evidence given and our belief [is] that he died of apoplexy

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

upon their oaths do say that Charles Young came to his death from Apoplexy near Anderson's Mills

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

upon their oaths do say that he came to his death from disease of the brain in his field some two hundred yards from his house

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

upon their oaths do say that ... Sidney Rhinehart died of Cerebral Apoplexy

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
old man
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that ... the said D. Seary died from Epileptic fit or other causes to which mortal man is heir

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

upon their oaths do say that the said Edw. O Fuller ... came to his death from conjestion of the brain or other natural cause

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

upon their oaths do say that they are satisfied that the aforesaid Col. J.H. Vandike came to his death from apoplexy while riding along the road

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

return our verdict that the deceased, Henry Rush, died from an attack of epilepsy

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