Poison

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
strychnine
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
strychnine
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by voluntarily administering poison with her own hands, at her Fathers House in the District afforesaid

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Daniel came death by disease unknown to us

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

upon their oaths do say, that Dave Richardson came to his death from the inhalation of poisonous gas in a well on the premises of T.J. Sullivan

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
strychnine
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Jane Smith came to her death by a dose of Strychnine accidentally given her for Colomel and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid, do say the aforesaid Jane Smith came to her death in the manner as before said.

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
strychnine
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said M F Anderson came to her death by taking an overdose of Strychnine and that the said M F Anderson in manner and form then and there voluntarily and feloniously herself did kill against the peace and dignity of the same State aforesaid.

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

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by Arsenic and that the same was administered by Arthur Suggs at his own residence

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

upon their oaths do say that the said Priner Davis came to his death from apoplectic Fit-brought on by drinking bad whiskey and exposure near the Public Road in Fairfield Co SC, leading form Winnsboro to Kincades Bridge on or between the night of the 13th and the morning of the 15th of January 1883[.]

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

Upon taking the testimony of the three witnesses herein enclosed I concluded that the empaneling of a jury was unnecessary, as it was clearly shown by the witnesses that deceased dies of natural causes.

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

We the undersigned jurious find from the evidence given that Willie Dunlap came to his death by poison administered by an unknown person to us.

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