The State vs. the Dead Body of female daughter of

Date: 
November 28, 1841

Deceased

female daughter of
Description: 
female daughter of
Notes: 
infant
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Rebecca Mullinax
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Infanticide
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say on oaths from the evidence before us and examination of the body that it came to its death by the improper interference of the mother Rebecca Mullinax cutting the string of the naval omiting to cord the same

Coroner

Coroner: 
Elijah Major
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at graveyard at Hammonds Old Field
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

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