Willie Adair

First Name: Willie
Last Name: Adair
Sex: 
Male
Parent(s): 
Eaney Metts
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that Willie Adair, was killed and murdered at the house of Charley Adairs on the plantation of D.A. Glenns by blows with a large hammer, in left temple, mashing in the skull badly, after the blows, by hanging with a split to a ladder, also by blows with stick, all by the hands of Rachel Fowlers, the nurse of Wille...

COD Short Description: 
child beaten and hung
Original Record: 
5235

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