The State vs. the Dead Body of Beller McAlester

Date: 
March 11, 1876

Deceased

Beller McAlester
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Brain
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that she came to her death by the act of God in a applect fitt [sic]

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. L. Bryan
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at house of deceased
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

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