Dorisa Byrd

First Name: Dorisa
Last Name: Byrd
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Lungs
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Dorisa Byrd came to her death from congestion of the lungs at on the plantation of Oliver Sloan[.]

COD Short Description: 
possibly Pneumonia
Original Record: 
4722

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