Samuel Kennedy

First Name: Samuel
Last Name: Kennedy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say. That the deceased came to his death in the woods near his mothers residence in said District by discharging the contents of a rifle Gun in to his chest in a fit of mental deragement, by resting the Gun on a rock and Tying a String to the trigger and then... pulling the Gun Towards him day and date above mentioned.

COD Short Description: 
shot himself with a rifle
Original Record: 
5150

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