Suffocation

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

upon their oaths do say that he came to his death by the hand of Providence by the falling of the earth on him in a ore[?] bank

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

[do say that] not having God before his eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil came to his untimely end. . .by drinking intoxicating spirits to an excess and attemting [sic] to vomet [sic] and strangled so that he finally lost his Breath and departed this life

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

do say upon their oaths that the said Isaac came to his death by accident or misfortune by the bank falling on him ... in the iron mine

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

upon their oaths do say said deceased came to his death by the accidental or providential caving of a well at his own residence

Description: 
free black
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to its death by being accidentally overlaid & smothered in the course fo the night by its mother

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

upon their oaths do say that according to evidence believe the said child was strangled to death by its mother's milk

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
two months old
Parent(s): 
Rosa Holiday
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to its death by its mother turning over on it in bed, which was as we believe an accident

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

upon their oaths do say that Pauline Abrham came to her death by some cause to them unknown

Description: 
infant female
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Elizabeth Griffin
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that . . . the said infant came to its death by being smothered by its Mother accidentally while she was asleep in bed

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
five months old
Parent(s): 
Maria Garrison
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Eloise Bird . . .came to her death . . .by misfortune or accident

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