Sarah Ratcliff

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

upon their oaths, do say: That the deceased came to her death by accedental burning on the plantation of Mr Isaac Smith on Tusday the 31t day of December 1872

COD Short Description: 
clothing accidentally caught fire
Original Record: 
4128

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