Nettie Mae Bennett

First Name: Nettie
Middle Name(s): Mae
Last Name: Bennett
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Nettie Mae Bennett received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by shot gun in the hands in the hands of Derk Gardin (accidental)

COD Short Description: 
accidently shot when she was picking cotton
Original Record: 
4395

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