Other

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

upon there oaths do say that the said negro woman. . .died by the visitation of God

Description: 
negro man
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

Upon their Oaths do say, that the said negro man Stepney came to his death by cruel treatment inflicted upon him by the hands of his master, Russel Harden

Description: 
Negro, negro boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say. . .believe said negro came to his death by a sever blow given him by Jerry one of said Watsons negroes not with the intention to Kill

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

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by strangling or choking with phlegm

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

upon their oaths do Say That Thomas Noble in the manner and form aforesaid came to his Death by the act of God.

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

upon their oaths do say on examining and viewing the body of Lewis Dial, this day found dead in the garden of J.M. Boyd, and from competent medical examination, we find that the said deceased came to his death by the visitation of God.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

We the undersigned Jurors do say that we believe the said david Jeans freedman came to his death by the Visitation of God.

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

upon their oaths aforesaid do say that the Decd. Auguiste Campbell came to his death, from the continual use of peach brandy, he the decd. Being advanced in years to old age & feeble constitution & that the use of sd. Intoxicating brandy, drank from Monday morning the 26th Inst. to the time of his death was the cause of sd. death.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the Freedman Charmes came to his death by the act of God

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Laura E. Jones came to her death By the providence of God at O. H T. Jones home in Laurens District

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