female child

Description: 
female child
Sex: 
Female
Child: 
child
Parent(s): 
Sallie Field
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

came to her death do say that. . .Sallie Turner was delivered of a female child and that said female child is the one here by us dead. And the Jurors further say that said female child was still born never having having breathed

COD Short Description: 
possible infanticide
Original Record: 
2630

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