The State vs. the Dead Body of Jane Ashmore

Date: 
April 3, 1880

Deceased

Jane Ashmore
Description: 
child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
nearly two yrs old
Child: 
child
Parent(s): 
Mattie Reese
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that. . .the said Jane Ashmore came to her death from natural causes

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. G. Hawthorne
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as 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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