Elizer

First Name: Elizer
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say . . .the death was occasioned by the violent abuse given her by the hands of David R. Henderson the overseer of [??] Sims by beating her with such weapons as was calculated to destroy life

COD Short Description: 
killed by overseer
Original Record: 
3256
Owner: 
Nathan Sims

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