James McCants

First Name: James
Last Name: McCants
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths, that he came to his death by the fall of a dead tree on fire, in his New Ground, about 12 oclock Meridian.

COD Short Description: 
crushed and burned by fallen dead tree
Original Record: 
4598

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