The State vs. the Dead Body of Infant Child of Caroline Hunter

Date: 
January 13, 1872

Deceased

Infant Child of Caroline Hunter
Description: 
Infant Child of Caroline Hunter
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Parent(s): 
Caroline Hunter
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths d say We Jurors afforesaid did examine the dead body of the said infant do say that the dead infant came to its death by accidental Smothering. . .

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Nabors
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Samuel J. Bryson plantion
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

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

Caroline Hunter the mother of the child being sworn. My child is about three weeks old on next Monday My child was healthy and I thought doing well. . .I waked up this morning before day and found the Child cold and tuck it up in her lap and found the life was gone.

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