The State vs. the Dead Body of Male Infant

Date: 
March 20, 1884

Deceased

Male Infant
Description: 
Male Infant
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Parent(s): 
Nancy Dunlop
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say; that the deceased male infant came to his death by suffocation or mischance. . .

Coroner

Coroner: 
R. S. Griffin
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the Jeff Sumerel place
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

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

Nancy Dunlop mother of child Examined. I am the mother this male infant lying dead it is six weeks old. He slept most all day yesterday. I did not know that he was sick. . .I didn't give him any medicine was quiet all day. I found out in the night that he was dead don't know what time. . .

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