Infanticide

Description: 
infant female child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the infanct was killed or homicideed by some person or persons, or (by some means) came to its death to the jurors unknown

Description: 
infant child
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Elizabeth Campbell
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that . . . said infant cause to its death by misfortune or accident either in the act of being born or short time after its birth

Description: 
infant male child
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said infant male child was killed and homicideed by some person or persons (or by some means) to the jurors unknown

Description: 
black child
Notes: 
infant
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Harriot
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths aforesaid do say that the aforesaid Harriot and Amy and Jenny did then and there feloniously cause the death of the said chile contrary to the peace and dignity of the state.

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Catherine Howard
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Description: 
white child
Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that it appears that the deceased was willfully killed, by some person or persons unknown

Description: 
Freedwoman
Notes: 
infant
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Clary Williams
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said infant came to its death by strangulation by the hands of its mother Clary Williams, a freed woman in the town of Anderson . . .immediately after its birth

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Adelia C. Parker
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that it came to its death ^at the house of Wm Shanachans[?] in the town of Anderson^ by violence inflicted by its mother Adelia C. Parker

Description: 
female daughter of
Notes: 
infant
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Rebecca Mullinax
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say on oaths from the evidence before us and examination of the body that it came to its death by the improper interference of the mother Rebecca Mullinax cutting the string of the naval omiting to cord the same

Description: 
nameless newborn boy or male child
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Unknown
Parent(s): 
Kittie Malone
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said nameless boy or male child came to his death on the 10th day of January AD 1885 and in Laurens County by strangulation cause by criminal negligence on the part of Kittie F. Malone.

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