The State vs. the Dead Body of Unknown Infant

Date: 
March 10, 1883

Deceased

Unknown Infant
Description: 
Unknown Infant
Sex: 
Unknown
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say That said child in manner and form aforesaid came to its death by misfortune or accident

Coroner

Coroner: 
Stephen H. Myers
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Peter Blakeney
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

[No witness testimonies]

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