Martin B. Elam

First Name: Martin
Middle Name(s): B.
Last Name: Elam
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Other
COD: 
Alcoholism
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that they suppose the deceased came to his death by the hand of providence or some other cause unknown

COD Short Description: 
drinking hard for two months
Original Record: 
3471

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