Robert Willingham

First Name: Robert
Last Name: Willingham
Sex: 
Male
Child: 
child
Race: 
Unknown
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Robert Willingham in manner [?] from aforesaid, came to his death by Smothering in a bank of dried[or seed?] cotton

COD Short Description: 
found headfirst in hole of cotton
Original Record: 
4665

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