Other

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

upon their oaths do say that he came to his death . . . by some means to the jurors unknown

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

upon their oaths do say that the said Elkanon Wells in manner and form aforesaid they and there voluntarily and feloniously did himself kill or so wound himself

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

upon their oaths do say. . . are inclined to the belief that there might have been violence inflicted which might have caused death upon the head or throat. Those parts being in so [?] a state of decomposition that it was impossible to determine whether there had been injuries inflicted on those parts or not.

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

we the jury find that Bessie Gambrell came to her death by swallowing Cartridge Hull No. 32 causing her death.

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

do say that in their opinion the said Thos Dalton by abcess on the[?] part of the head which was accidentally[?] effected and caused his death.

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

do say, that deceased [John Williams] came to his death by dropsical affiction.

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

do say that George C. Mitchell came to his death by his own act..either falling or by jumping from the house top into the yard while laboring under derangeme

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that. . .said child was dead born

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Rena Belott
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the infant was a premature birth and born dead

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