Transportation

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
wagon
COD Inquest Finding: 

by their oaths do say on the 16th June 1865. The slave Charles was thrown from a wagon loaded with wheat - by a large limb causing accidental death instantly by the face.

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
automobile
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Farris Dennis received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by Car-Truck Collision in the hands of Tim Robinson

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

Came to his death by accidental drowning

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

upon their oaths do say that Sam King received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by Car in the hands of Miltard E. Gilbert. . . The Said Mr. Sam King Came to his death by a car driven by Mr. M. E. Gilbert & recommend he be not held responsible (unavoidable)

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

upon their oaths do say that Robert Paul Harden received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by Collison with truck in the hands of J. H. Harman . . . The jury recommends that J. H. Harman not be held responsible

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
automobile
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Flora Bell Ford received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by Ford Automobile in the hands of William Sanders

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
bus
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Betty Jo Edgeworth received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by a tree falling on school Bus. . . & recommend that Mr. Jessie McManus & crew be held not responsible -- Unavoidable

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
truck
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Dorothy Wise received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by_________ in the hands of E. W. English

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
automobile
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Mrs. Hester Johnson Shaw received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by Pontiac Automobile in the hands of Sgt. James Holly

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

James Purdie Deese & Paul Deese came to his death upon their oaths do say that _______ received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by S.A.L. Train #1 -- Caused by collision of the driver of the Deese car

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