The State vs. the Dead Body of Maria Seawright

Date: 
January 11, 1882

Deceased

Description: 
grandma
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Maria Seawright came to her death from a natural cause by an act of Providence

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the farm of A. W. McDavids

Source

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