Jane Young

First Name: Jane
Last Name: Young
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Mrs. Jane D. Young came her death by [being] shotint he left breast feloniously, wilfully & maliciously by a gun in the hands of Hiram a negro slave the property of L.W.R. Blair

COD Short Description: 
shot by slave
Original Record: 
2803

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