The State vs. the Dead Body of infant female

Date: 
November 25, 1880

Deceased

infant female
Description: 
infant female
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Elizabeth Griffin
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that . . . the said infant came to its death by being smothered by its Mother accidentally while she was asleep in bed

Coroner

Coroner: 
John T. Bramlett[?]
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at T. H. Long
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

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