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From: "MICHAEL. CHAPPELL" <>
Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] Cause of death was "confinement"
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 01:24:26 +0100


Dear Helen & Kaye,

Many thanks and very kind, it is a pleasure for me too.

To take this further in order to exclude possibilities I have to regress: I
should have asked a preliminary question! Now an item of due but ignored
regard in this expanded but yet still 'very general' matter about a term
used; ( I would venture also in two countries!) in both instances.

We have multiple deaths in these cases. Still this late we have no
designated places where the deaths happened, other than one in being in the
state of Ohio! Not a single domestic address where they occurred let alone
a singular room of confinement?

We are all led by assumptions cognisant or not. We must never assume from
pure opinion given as the basis of probably an unknown fact through the
entry of a single 'word'? Disregarding too the numerous likely differences
of meaning.

If any of us wish to come to some form of a reasonably accurate conclusion
about 'one death' many more details particulary about places are required
for our deliberations.

Unless we have particular and known living addresses say of domestic
habitation all is still assumption.

This now is a simple case of logic not one of being semantic or pedantic tho
those elements have entered perhaps logic will help in a singular case and
maybe none beofore we attempt to determine the cause of any.

Yours,
Mikey.












-----Original Message-----
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Date: 17 April 2000 21:36
Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] Cause of death was "confinement"


This discussion is fantastic. Just to clear things up a little the time was
January 1880, the place was Ohio, and the cause of death just said
confinement. No during, before, after was included. The record I have is a
copy of a page from the registration of death records. I have enjoyed your
email and your logic.
Helen

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