Other

Description: 
child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say "that Bessie Marshal came to her death by the hand of Providence, at the house of Henry Foster, on the 22nd day of November 1893."

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

upon their oathes do say that the said Duff Gist came to his death from Congestion of the Bowels.

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

upon their oaths do say that he came to his death in Laurens Counrt on the 10th day of May 1893 from strangulation by being hung by the neck, by parties unknown to the jury.

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

upon their oaths do say that the said John Williams came to his death "by his own hands for his own free will by jumping from the train while moving."

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

from what I can see on the other children it died from influenza

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

upon their oaths do say, that Martha Stevenson came to her death from natural causes probly influenza[.]

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

upon their oath do say that the aforesaid Patsy Johnston came to her death from scrofula.

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

upon their Oaths do say that Silvy Homes came to her death at her daughters Residence at the night of 28th of April AD 1887 from Providential Visitation[.]

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

upon their oaths do say that the said Madison Harper came to his death from disease by the visitation of God

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that, according to all the testimony adduced to them, they are inclined to believe, that on the 17th instant, the said Phillis being often last spring, complaining of Hysterical, vapours she was taken with a Hysteric Attack which caused her death

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