The State vs. the Dead Body of Lena Hutchinson

Date: 
October 20, 1873

Deceased

Lena Hutchinson
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say according to their knowledge and belief according to the evidence that she came to her death by accident by being burned to death

Coroner

Coroner: 
G. W. Hammond
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

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