John M. Bonds

First Name: John
Middle Name(s): M.
Last Name: Bonds
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say having understood that the said John M. Bonds died very suddenly on the mornign of the 15th of this Instant while going as a boat hand on Savannah River. . . .we the jury report that we fully concur in the opinion of the said doctors as reported by them to the coroner...that is to say that John M. Bonds came to his death by a diseased action in the Larynx producing or giving rise to suffocation.

COD Short Description: 
died by suffocation, laryngitis
Original Record: 
2381

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