Other

Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Age Descriptor: 
30 or 60
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that she came to her death on sabath the eighth day of March?at the residence of her master A. A. Morse, of deceased hastened or made premature by the maltreatment of her Master A. A. Morse and his mistress Mrs. C. T. [?] Morse, and more particularly on the part of the latter, and....that the said slave Jain the said A. A. Morse & C. T. Morse, by misfortune, and contrary to their will

Description: 
free man of color
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
arsenic
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said Lewis Green came to his death by poisioning with arsnick at the Williamston Hotel. . . on the night of the seventeenth day of September. . . the said poison being administered at the said Hotel somewhere about the thirteenth day of September...the medium of a certain sponge cake or pudding by some person or persons unknown

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

do say that he came to his death by the visitation of providence him being an old man between 75 & 80 years of age.

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

do say that Bonaparte Bates in manner and form aforesaid came to his death by misfortune or accident

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

do say that they believe the said Aaron Hardin came to his death by mischance and accident by the hand of God, the body being in such a state of putrifaction and mutilation as to prevent a discovery of any marks of violence or other causes of death.

Description: 
wife of Barney McCulley
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that she the sd deceased died of violence on the night of 31 Augt 1841 in her own house & by her own husband Barney McCulley

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

upon their Oaths aforesaid do say, that the aforesaid Violet in manner and form aforesaid, then and there, voluntarily and feloniously herself did kill

Description: 
Child of Mary Muree
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Parent(s): 
Mary Muree
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths, the affore said child then and their died of the visitation of God, and not otherwise.

Description: 
Infant of Mary Sellers
Sex: 
Unknown
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: the infant child came to its death from natural causes

Description: 
Infant of C. P. Rushing
Sex: 
Unknown
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: That the said child came to its death from some natural cause or causes

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