Other

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

upon their oaths do say that the said deceased came to her death from hemorhage caused by premature labor, said labor produced by diarhea

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that ... the said Leonora M. Cannon died from the rupture of a blood vessel which caused a rush of blood into the lungs and instant death ensued

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
old woman
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say ... the said Rachail Langley came to her death from indigestion caused by eating too much heartily of unwholesome diet

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

upon their oaths do say that the said Jackson Byars came to his death beside the Mills Gap Road nine miles from Spartanburg C.H. in the County and State aforesaid ... from appoplexy or effusion of blood upon the brain

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
four month old
Parent(s): 
Julia Pilgrim
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid Chaney Pilgrim came to her death while in the bed with her mother Julia Pilrim. . .from some cause or causes unknown to the jury

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

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death. . .near the door of her house (being in labor) by misfortune or accident

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

upon their oaths do say that the said D.M. Richards voluntarily & feloniously himself did kill being of unsound mind

Description: 
colored
Notes: 
infant
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Harriet Turner
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said infant. . .came to its death by misfortunte or accident

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