The State vs. the Dead Body of Frank Young

I went to sleep while it was nursing & when I woke in the morning I found the child dead

Date: 
January 11, 1877

Deceased

Frank Young
Description: 
infant
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Eady Young
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the child came to its by accidentaly being overlaid by its mother.

Coroner

Coroner: 
William Bayne
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Greenville
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

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