colored

Description: 
colored
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Ellen Junkin
Race: 
Black
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
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

COD Short Description: 
strangled by beads
Notes: 
infant
Original Record: 
2460

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