Lizzie Coleman

First Name: Lizzie
Last Name: Coleman
Sex: 
Female
Child: 
child
Race: 
Black
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the child Lizzie, Coleman, came to her death by burning in a house on the Plantation of Capt A.P. Irby's the 21st of Nov 1884 the origin of the fire unknown to the jury[.]

COD Short Description: 
burned in house fire
Original Record: 
4723

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