Sandy Purvis

First Name: Sandy
Last Name: Purvis
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Act of God
COD Method/Implement: 
lightning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say That the said John Smotherman Berry Campbell and Sandy Purvis came to their deaths by accident at the Turpentine Camp of A B Reid . . . By Lightning.

COD Short Description: 
struck by lightning
Original Record: 
4187

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