Other

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

upon their oaths, do say: That the Said H.F. Nivens came to his death form some cause or causes to this Jury unknown

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

upon their oaths, do say: that the Said Anna Jefferson came to her death form some cause or causes to the Jury unknown

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

upon thire oaths do say that the Said Martha McFarling came to her death from natural causes to the Jury unknown

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

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by injuries inflicted upon her by William Kimball

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
about seventy
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that from the evidence before us by misfortune and that said misfortune was caused by the bursting of an artery And So the said jurors aforesaid, do say, that the aforesaid Emaline Jackson came to her death in manner and form

Description: 
child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
Parent(s): 
Lucy Smith [step-mother]
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: that the said Lula Smith aforesaid came to her death, by a cause unknown

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
pocket knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

the said Wm Humphry now being dead came to his death from the effect of a wound inflicted by a pocket knife which pierced the heart and that the knife was in his own hands while he was holding or trying[?] to hold Mark Thrig[?] with his right hand and arm and that it was his Misfortune

Description: 
child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
three and a half months old
Child: 
child
Parent(s): 
Julia Nobles
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that she said Lona May Hamilton came to death. . .on the plantation of J.A. Deale. . .by accidental suffication

Description: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Millie Hamond (cold)
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Infant of Millie Hamond came to its death by a cause unknown

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

upon their oaths do Say that the said Charlie Ryan Came to his death by the hands of Sam Nobles and it was wilful Murder

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