Overdose

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
laudanum
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say it appearing from the examination of the body, & Testimony that the said Samuel Hudgins came to his death at his own residence on the 9th of November 1854 from an accessive [sic] uses [sic] of Laddnum taken at his own will & from his own hands.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
morphine
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say he came to his death by the accidental falling of a log across his breast.

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
morphine
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Emily Griffith came to her death by an overdose of morphine Given by mistake by Bettie Griffith

Sex: 
Male
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
alcohol
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do Say the Deceased came to Death from the effects of ardent Sperits administered of himself by his own act

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
opium
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say that the deceasd came to her death in Winnsbor between the hours of 12 PM and 6 AM from the conjoint result of an over dose of Opium and Whiskey and disease of the Kidneys

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
laudanum
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that he came to his death by the affects of Laudnum. Given under own hand

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
laudanum
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said T. Clark Singleton infant did come to his death by the administration of an over portion of laudnum given to him by his mother Margaret

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
morphine
COD Inquest Finding: 

by their oaths do say that . . . the said William T Barrett came to his death from the effects of an over dose of morphine administered by himself

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
anodynes
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said James P. Moore came to his death from the effect of anodynes administered by himself; but whether with the intention of taking his life or not the jury are unable to say.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
laudanum
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Samuel W. Bates cause to his death from drinking and taking into his stomach on yesterday morning a quantity of laudanum

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