The State vs. the Dead Body of white child

Date: 
January 20, 1871

Deceased

white child
Description: 
white child
Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Infanticide
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that it appears that the deceased was willfully killed, by some person or persons unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
Elvin J. Person
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Wilson's Bridge
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

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