Record #:

22890

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Kammerer gives many unusual deaths that were reported to the coroner's office. The information gives good genealogical information. For example, John Shannon drowned in 1763. Thomas Travis died when a sapling snagged the trigger of his gun while hunting in 1766. Samuel Calhoon was out of his senses and caused his own death in 1775. In 1773, William Hattaway was accidently killed while hunting turkeys and Ann Hardee was choked to death by her husband. In 1774, Capt. James Gorham’s slave Mingo was killed when a pine tree fell on him. Kammerer also gives the names of Pitt county soldiers taken from Field Returns in 1773 and 1775.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Jun 8-21 1988, p6

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History