Absalom

First Name: Absalom

Sex:

Male

Race:

Black

Slave Status:

Enslaved

Cause of Death

COD Category:

COD:

COD Method/Implement:

lightning

COD Inquest Finding:

do say upon their oaths that said Absalom came to his death by a stroke of lightning

COD Short Description:

struck by lightning

Original Record:

4560

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