The State vs. the Dead Body of Female Child of Press & Lindy Beasley

Date: 
August 30, 1890

Deceased

Description: 
Female Child of Press & Lindy Beasley
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said female child came to its death from "suffocation"

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
on the plantation of Capt Alex Henry's
County: 

Source

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