Chaney

First Name: Chaney
Description: 
negro woman
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Heart
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that Chaney, the woman now lying dead before them came to her death by the Visitation of God

COD Short Description: 
died of apparent heart disease
Original Record: 
3540
Owner: 
Hiram Adams

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