Childbirth

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

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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