The State vs. the Dead Body of colored

Date: 
April 24, 1874

Deceased

colored
Description: 
colored
Notes: 
infant
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Ellen Junkin
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that infant child came to its death by pressure on preroted[?] artery by stran of beads. . . by misfortune or accident

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. J. Gilmer
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Dr. J. A. Todd's
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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