infant

Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Peggy Bedenbaugh
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Infanticide
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said male infant child was killed by its mother Peggy Bedenbaugh [and] after she was delivered of it ... that she buried it about thirty yards back of the house in which she resides on Capt. J.D. Jakell's plantation

COD Short Description: 
killed by mother
Notes: 
infant
Original Record: 
2862

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