The State vs. the Dead Body of Rebecca Sherman

Date: 
January 4, 1879

Deceased

Rebecca Sherman
Description: 
child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
nearly six years old
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that . . .the deceased Rebeccas Sherman came to her death . . .from the effects of an accedental burn

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
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Transcription: 

I got information from a little child that the dec'd was on fire and ran to her mother's house. It was in this county when I found her with her clothes off and burning. I wrapped her up and took her to [?] house. Her breast & shoulders were burnt.

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