Burns

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that he came to his death by being burned in the dwelling house of Jane Goudelock which is included in Laurens County, State of South Carolina. The cause or origin of the said fire is to this jury unknown.

Description: 
five year old child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the deceased was burnt. And Anna Queen Fuller in manner and form aforesaid came to her death by misfortune or accident.

Description: 
child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say the said Euphemia Jones here deceased came to her death from being burned, by accident, whereunto we the jurors and coroner here set our names and seals.

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

do say upon their oaths they believe he came to his death by burning and not otherwise.

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Ida Suber and Sallie Belle Suber came to their deaths by accidently burning to death from[?] carelessness of their mother.

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Ida Suber and Sallie Belle Suber came to their deaths by accidently burning to death from[?] carelessness of their mother.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say that the deceased came to his death at his Father's house the 20 June 1895 from accidental burning.

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Ella Davis, being a child of six years, and having been left alone in the dwelling house of said Alice Simms by the said Alice, the mother of said child, in the afternoon of the day aforesaid, no one being present and able to protect her, accidently took fire on her clothing and died from burning and suffocation[.]

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say: That the said Willie Gooding came to his death from accidental burning by fire

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say: That the said Tomas Yongue came to his death from accidental burning

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