Fanny

First Name: Fanny
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Age Descriptor: 
about sixty
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that that the Negro woman came to her death by a fit of apoplexy on the morning of the fourth day of November 1855 in her own house.

COD Short Description: 
murdered by master
Original Record: 
2812
Owner: 
Edward A. Salmond

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