Other

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

say upon their oaths that the said Thomas Hill . . .voluntarily and Feloniously as a felon of himself did Kill and homicide himself

Description: 
negro boy Slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths . . .by accidentaly hanging himself by swing by a rope used for suspending a Waggon Body

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say . . .the death was occasioned by the violent abuse given her by the hands of David R. Henderson the overseer of [??] Sims by beating her with such weapons as was calculated to destroy life

Description: 
man supposed to be Henry Coil
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their Oaths that he with Strolling About Perisht with hunger & Coald . . .did kill and homicide himself

Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
machinery
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the say Boy Charles. . . 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 the decased came to his death by a supposed fall from a trestle ... said fall causing concussion of the brain

Notes: 
twin infants
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Rosa Foster
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the twin children were stillborn & that no violence has been practiced

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