Ascension County Louisiana Archives News.....Coroner's Inquests. - August 21, 1880
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Source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
August 21, 1880, Page 3 1880


CORNER'S INQUESTS. - Dr. J.B. Vandegriff, the efficient Coroner of this parish, 
has recently held the following inquests:

1. August 2, 1880, on the body of JOE BROOKS,  a colored man aged about 70 
years, who was found dead in the fields of Stella plantation on the 1st inst.

2. August 10, 1880, on the body of ADAM MINGO,  colored, whose body was taken 
from the Mississippi river in front of the Richard McCall plantation. Mingo was 
carried into the river by the caving of a portion of the batture (sic) in front 
of Jackson Landry's place, Crevasse Settlement, about 10 o'clock at night on the  
7th inst., where hehad gone in company with his brother and several other 
colored men to remove wood from the crumbling embankment.

3. August 14, 1880, on the body of OBY JONES, colored, aged 40 years, who died 
at Marchand Settlement, in the fifth Police Jury ward of several gunshot wounds 
inflicted by one Joseph Samuel Gore on Saturday, July 31, 1880. We have not 
obtained the particulars of this shooting affair, but we believe the wounding 
was accidental.

4. August 18, 1880, on the body of JOHN ROHSRITSCH, a native of Germany, aged 
about 60 years, who died at J.B. Jacob's plantation of pernicious fever.

5. August 19, 1880, on the body of WILLIS FRANKLIN,  a colored boy of 8 years of 
age, son of Mrs. Mary White of Port Barrow, drowned in Bayou Lafourche on the 
18th inst., while crossing in a skiff at a point opposite Henry Droege's. The 
boy was in the skiff alone and there was no witness to the accident that cost 
him his life.
  

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