N. C. Smith

First Name: N.
Middle Name(s): C.
Last Name: Smith
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Act of God
COD Method/Implement: 
tree fall
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: That N.C. Smith came to his death by a tree falling on him causing instant-death this happening on the plantation of N.S. Smith, on the 18th day of July 1871

COD Short Description: 
crushed by falling tree during a storm
Original Record: 
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