Suffocation

Description: 
infant child
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Anna Pope
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the Said Child Came to his death from Suffication

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

upon there oaths do say that the said John Rufus Russell come to his death by suffocation Caused by accidentally falling with head downward into a hole in a pile of seed Cotton

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

upon there oaths do say . . .the Child come to its death accidentally or by being smutherd

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

upon there oaths do say that the said Enoch Douglass came to his death by accident

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

upon their oaths do say That Isaac Grimer came to his death on the Spann Church road near Jacobs Church ... by misfortune or accident

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

upon their Oaths do say, that the said Callen Oneall came to his death. . .By drinking too much liquor and supposed to have strangled to death by Throwing up

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

upon their oaths do say the deceased William Harlin, came to his death by the cavin in and filling up with dirt the well in which he was engaged digging on the Siken Road

Description: 
negro woman Slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

Upon their Oaths do say that the aforesaid Rose being chained in the Meat house of said M. Long, around the neck with a common chain trace with one ened and the Other end of said chain aforesaid to the Joist broke her neck either by design or by accident

Description: 
freed person infant
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that . . .it came to its death by being smuthered by him in her sleep

Description: 
infant slave
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that . . . it came to its death by accidental overLaying or strangling by the mothers breast

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