Betsey Smith

First Name: Betsey
Last Name: Smith
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the Said Betsey Smith Came to her Death [??] Close[?] catching[?] fire and and[?] and[?] thereby [?] her to Death

COD Short Description: 
clothes caught fire
Original Record: 
3374

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