Absalom Causey

First Name: Absalom
Last Name: Causey
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say; that he came to his death by wounds inflicted with a hickory club on the head and side and hip in the hand of Doctor Miles Gilmore

COD Short Description: 
murdered by doctor
Original Record: 
4861

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