Suffocation

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

upon their oaths do say that the child was accidently overlayed by its mother

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

uppon their oaths do say that the Decest Came to his death by accidental overlaying of his Mother & smothering to death

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

upon their oaths do say . . .the child was found dead . . .from bieng overlaid by its parents or some other unknown means to them in bed

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

upon their oaths do say the child come it death by accident or mischance by smuthering or some way unknown

Description: 
infant
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
about 5
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the said James Baldwin came to his death by an accident, occasioned by his elder brother Henry Baldwin tying a Rope around his the said James Baldwin neck and fastening one end of said rope to a [?] fastened in the joist and the said Henry going off and leaving of it in that situation ... as a reason for tying the said child was that he was subject to eating of dirt and Salt[?] and that his brother done it to prevent him from getting the same whilst he was in the field at work

Description: 
negro child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the dieast came to its death by being overlaid by its mother

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

upon their oaths do say that Tip Jackson came to his death by accidentally falling down a steep bank about fourteen feet, his neck falling across a log causing suffocation new New Prospect on the Mills Gap Road about midnight

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

upon their oaths do say that Thomas Davis came to his death by misfortune or accident

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Josephine Robins
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that said Sylvester Robbins came to his death ... from the effect of falling behind the bed and being caught by the chin and head between the railing of the bed and the wall of the house

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Sarah D. Smith
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the infant aforesaid came to its death ... from the ignorant neglect of said child by Sarah D. Smith, the mother of said child without intent to murder the child upon her part

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