Elijah Flour[?]

First Name: Elijah
Last Name: Flour[?]
Description: 
youth
Sex: 
Male
Age Descriptor: 
about seven years
Child: 
child
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

Upon their oaths do say, that his death was caused by a gun shot wound in the right side, under the right arm, received in the cotton field of George R. Sawyer . . .from a shot gun tehn and there charged with powder and Shot in the hand, or arms of John Flour[?], brother of deceased then and there casually and by misfortune

COD Short Description: 
accidentally shot by brother
Original Record: 
3509

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