Nestor Ellison

First Name: Nestor
Last Name: Ellison
Description: 
freedman
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the above named S.G.W. Dill and Nestor Eillison ... about half an hour after dark on the evening of the 4th day of June 1868 came to their deaths from gun shot wounds in the hands of some parties to the jury unknown

COD Short Description: 
assassinated
Original Record: 
2856

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