The State vs. the Dead Body of Infant of Mary Sellers

Date: 
December 1, 1894

Deceased

Infant of Mary Sellers
Description: 
Infant of Mary Sellers
Sex: 
Unknown
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: the infant child came to its death from natural causes

Coroner

Coroner: 
C. M. Hunt
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at J. H. Seller's
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

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

Mrs. Mary Sellers being sworn says The infant lying dead is my child. It has been sickly all of its life. We went to bed as usual last nigh. I did not wake. I wake up this morning about 5 o'clock and get it dead found it dead. How it died I dont know

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