Childbirth

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

upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid Infant came to his death from Premature birth[.]

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

upon their oaths, do say That it was an act of providence from natural causes

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

upon their oaths do say, that the said Dinah came to her death by miscarriage and inflamation of the womb at the plantation of Master Michael Long

Description: 
Unknown Infant
Sex: 
Unknown
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Mary Gaylord
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that the said child was still born. . .

Description: 
Unknown Infant
Sex: 
Unknown
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: The said infant child was the Child of Caroline Laurean but from being buried such a length of time was in such a state of decomposition, it was impossible from autopsy to find out cause of death, Therefore we find that it came to its death from some cause unknown to it there

Description: 
Unknown Infant
Sex: 
Unknown
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

My opinion is that its death was from natural cause and has been dead for about four days

Description: 
Infant of Dissie Adams
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: He came to his death from natural cause in feble condition after birth

Description: 
unnamed infant
Sex: 
Unknown
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Catharine Montgomery
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say That upon a Post-morten examination, that from the decomposed state of the Child, having been dead 8 days and buried 7 days, that we can not see any sign of violence or Poesen,--but from the emty state of the Childs Stomach and Bowels, believe that the death of the Child was caused by withholding the necessary nurishment, from its Mothers breast, or otherwise

Description: 
Unknown Infant
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: That the said Infant Child came to her death by being accidently Smothered and that it dide on the 26th day of A D 1888

Description: 
Unknown infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that , according to the evidence before them, the said infants came to this death in the house of Alie Williams on Church street in Town of Cheraw one on Saturday night the other on Sunday - both form natural causes

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