Transportation

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

Upon their oaths do say, that John Shumport . . .did come to his death by misfortune or accident

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
horse
COD Inquest Finding: 

came to his death by being accidentally thrown from his horse

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
wagon
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death by a wagon wheel runing over the breast of decd breaking the 6th-7th & 8th ribs of the left side and the probible rupture of some important blood vessels-on the Columbia Road

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
horse
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Lewis Glanton came to his death by being thrown from his horse against a pine tree in a small[?] near Scotts road

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
wagon
COD Inquest Finding: 

Came to his death by the act of God a Waggon Whel running [?]

Description: 
slave, boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
boat
COD Inquest Finding: 

have come to the decision that the boy with others was washed from a small boat in the early part of the night of the fouth in attempting to cross the river . . .got gast[?] in a [?] trap and perished from cold

Description: 
female slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that from . . .marks found on the arm and head of Decsd that decsd Came to her death by the cars [?] attemting to cross the track before the cars . . .by misfortune or accident

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
boat
COD Inquest Finding: 

came to his death by act of God

Description: 
minor child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
horse
COD Inquest Finding: 

the Decd came to her death . . .by accidently falling from a horse

Description: 
single man
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
horse
COD Inquest Finding: 

do upon their oaths . . .that the above Starling Kingston Came to his Death by [?] a fall from his horse

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