Burns

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

upon their oaths do say: That the said Elenora Yongue came to her death by accidental burning.

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

upon their Oaths do say that aforsaid children came to their deaths by accidental burning of the house in which they were fastined up on the morning of the 16th of March 1893. We also add our condemnation to the general practice of Colored Parents locking up helpless children in houses where there is fire.

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

upon their Oaths do say that aforsaid children came to their deaths by accidental burning of the house in which they were fastined up on the morning of the 16th of March 1893. We also add our condemnation to the general practice of Colored Parents locking up helpless children in houses where there is fire.

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

upon their Oaths do say that aforsaid children came to their deaths by accidental burning of the house in which they were fastined up on the morning of the 16th of March 1893. We also add our condemnation to the general practice of Colored Parents locking up helpless children in houses where there is fire.

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

upon their oaths do say, That Hattie Smalls, in manner and form aforsaid came to her death by having burned[?] to death accidently

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

upon their Oaths do say that the deceased came to his death [at] his Fathers house, on the 15 [Dec] 1892 from burns frm Accidentaly catching on f[ire][.]

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

upon their Oaths do say that Willie, Dawkins came to his death at the house of Edward Rodgers the 12 of Feb 1891 from Accidental Burning

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

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to her death from a burn by accidently catching on fire, Sept the 3d, 1886[.]

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

upon their oaths do say that the said Thomas Thompson came to his death from the affect of a burn caused by falling in the fire[.]

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

upon their [oaths] do say that Adaline Cason came to her death by Accidental Burning on the 11th of March 1885

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