Corvie Bowers

First Name: Corvie
Last Name: Bowers
Sex: 
Female
Parent(s): 
Mariah Bowers
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Act of God
COD Method/Implement: 
lightning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid Corvie Bowers came to her death in Laurens County on the 23d day of July AD 1885 by a strike of Lightning.

COD Short Description: 
child struck by lightning
Original Record: 
5035

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