Other

Description: 
infant child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Luda Scott
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say that Moriah L. Scott infant child . . .came to her death from cold

Description: 
infant child. Male.
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Rebeca Jane Scott
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that said child was born on the twenty second inst and was dead

Description: 
negro woman
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Age Descriptor: 
about eighteen years old
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said unknwon person came to her death by some means unknown to the jury

Description: 
freed woman
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by exposing herself while sick with fever

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

upon their oaths do say that the said disseast came to his death by misfortune or accident

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

upon their oaths do say ... that he came to his death by a blow from a [?] on the throat from an unknown hand

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.

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