Unknown Infant

Description: 
Unknown Infant
Sex: 
Female
Child: 
infant
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Childbirth
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: That the said Infant Child came to her death by being accidently Smothered and that it dide on the 26th day of A D 1888

COD Short Description: 
child died soon after birth from complications or having been accidentally smothered
Original Record: 
2283

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