Elijah

First Name: Elijah
Sex: 
Male
Child: 
child
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Infant Slave "Elijah" the property of Eliza Jane Hughes (A Mintor) came to its death by accident by being overlain either by its mother or another child of hers

COD Short Description: 
child suffocated in night
Original Record: 
4889

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