Burns

Description: 
little boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
near three years old
Child: 
child
Parent(s): 
Adaline Edwards
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid James Edwards came to his death by being accidentally burnt by his clothers taken on fire

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

find that the child has been burnt on the spinal [?] a place as large as a [?] also burnt on the [?] and near mostly all over its body as pieces between [?] as to the cause of her death is from constriction of the brain.

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say according to their knowledge and belief according to the evidence that she came to her death by accident by being burned to death

Description: 
freedman
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that [Sloan] came to his death by being burnt to death by the accidental burning of the Gin house of Major A. M. Hamilton. . .as the jury could ascertain in cause of the fire the presumption being that It was through matches, in the possession of the said Sloan

Description: 
Infant of Solomon Huguy
Sex: 
Unknown
Race: 
Unknown
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

[No official declaration]

Description: 
Infant of Samuel Love
Sex: 
Unknown
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: that the said infants came to their deaths by being accidentally burned on the 15th day of November A.D. 1887

Description: 
Infant of Sarah McQueen
Sex: 
Unknown
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: that the said infants came to their deaths by being accidentally burned on the 15th day of November A.D. 1887

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