Suffocation

Description: 
child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
three weeks old
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upont their oaths do say that the said Dolly Young . . . came to her death by accident or smuthering or by misclued[?]

Description: 
infant
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Eady Young
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the child came to its by accidentaly being overlaid by its mother.

Description: 
colored
Notes: 
infant
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Ellen Junkin
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that infant child came to its death by pressure on preroted[?] artery by stran of beads. . . by misfortune or accident

Description: 
Infant Male Child of Mariah Owings
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Parent(s): 
Mariah Owings
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, That the said child came to its death on Friday 6th day of July in its mothers house from Suffocation, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid, do say that the aforesaid child came to his death by misfortune or accident.

Description: 
Infant of Adeline Teague
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Parent(s): 
Adeline Teague
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that it Died in Laurens Co. on the 17th day of Aug. AD. 1894 from accidental suffocation.

Description: 
Infant child of Laurens & Nelly Simpson
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Parent(s): 
Nelly Simpson
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said infant child came to its death by "Accidental Smothering."

Description: 
Male Infant
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Parent(s): 
Nancy Dunlop
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say; that the deceased male infant came to his death by suffocation or mischance. . .

Description: 
Male Child of M.C. & Bella Moody
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Parent(s): 
Bella Moody
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the child died by strangulation accidental.

Description: 
Female Child of Press & Lindy Beasley
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said female child came to its death from "suffocation"

Description: 
Infant of Lucy Fowler
Sex: 
Unknown
Race: 
White
Parent(s): 
Lucy Fowler
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do Say the said child came to its death by accidental suffication [sic].

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