Betty Jo Edgeworth

First Name: Betty
Middle Name(s): Jo
Last Name: Edgeworth
Sex: 
Female
Child: 
child
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
bus
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Betty Jo Edgeworth received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by a tree falling on school Bus. . . & recommend that Mr. Jessie McManus & crew be held not responsible -- Unavoidable

COD Short Description: 
accidently hit when tree fell on a school bus
Original Record: 
4512

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