Johnson

Last Name: Johnson
Description: 
Johnsons infant
Sex: 
Unknown
Child: 
infant
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Infanticide
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: That it was the child of Henretta Johnson that rivers found dead in the woods near the Robert Tucker House and that from appearance that it was the propper time for it to be deliverd and if the child was not murderd She intendedto murder it and it was don on or about the 11 of June 1875[.]

COD Short Description: 
child found dead in woods - killed by mother
Original Record: 
4157

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