Brain

Beller McAlester
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Brain
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that she came to her death by the act of God in a applect fitt [sic]

Lila Gambrell
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Brain
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said Lila Gambrell came to her death by mischance produced by personal epolepsy [sic].

John Saylor
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Brain
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that said John Saylor. . .died we think and believe from some disease of the heart or an appoplectic [apoplectic] fit.

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