The State vs. the Dead Body of Pauline Abraham

the child died from suffocation or from being overlaid by its mother

Date: 
November 19, 1882

Deceased

Description: 
child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Pauline Abrham came to her death by some cause to them unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Archey Ramsey's

Source

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