Suffocation

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said child came to its death by being accidently overlain by its Mother, and was smothered to death.

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

upon their Oaths do say that the deceasd came to his death from Accidental Smothering in bed at its Fathers house[.]

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

do say that the deceased came to its death by being Smothered in bed. & that infant in manner and form afore-Said, came to its death by misfortune or accident

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

upon their oaths do say that Basil Vick received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by Suffocation by smoke from fire in adjoining cell, occupied by Joe Church.

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

upon their oaths, do say: that he came to his death by caving in of Cotton Seed upon him at the Cheraw oil mill being smothered.

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

[No official declaration]

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

upon their oaths, do say: That the said Sallie E Hanna came to her death by being smothered, accidently during the night of the 18th Inst

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

[No official declaration]

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

I have this day helt a perliminary examination over the dad body of Willie Hendrix Stricklin and from the evidence of witnesses I do not deam it nesary to hold an inqest but from Such witness find that the sed Willie Hendrix Stricklin came to his dath from none others than natural causes

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

upon their oaths, do say: That the said Beatrice McGuine came to her death from strangulation while sucking its mother

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