Drowning

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

do say upon their oaths that the said Goodall not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil at the boat yard near Camden . . . then and there himself voluntarily and feloniously downed [himself]

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

do say upon their oaths. . . that the said negro in escaping from him [the overseer] attempted to swim the river, and was drowned

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

upon their oaths do say that . . .the said D. W. Stepp came to his death by being drowned accidentally in the Mill Pond at Hutchinson's Tan Yard

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

upon their oaths do say that he John P. Groce came to his death . . . by accidental drowning in the mill pond of W J Bates while bathing in company with P D Bates, Morgan Flynn and Benjame Cannon[?]

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

upon their oaths do say . . .by drowning came to his death by accident

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

upon their aoths do say that sd West Myers was accidentally drowned by Cicero Caveton[?]

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
ten or eleven
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that he came to his death . . . in John L. Southern's mill pond by being drowned accidentally while bathing

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

upon their oaths do say that the said R. T. Bailey came to his death by falling into Reedy River newar Greenville CH this day and was accidentally drowned.

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

upon their oaths do say that he came to his death by accidental drowning . . . near McBees Mills in Reedy River

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

do say upon their oaths that they think he much intoxicated, and in attempting to crop[?] the River fell off on a rock under the Bridge broke his skull and so stunned him that he was immediately drowned

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