The State vs. the Dead Body of Wesley Holiday

I saw blood & milk running out of its nose. My wife must have turned over on it while the breast was in its mouth.

Date: 
September 14, 1883

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
two months old
Parent(s): 
Rosa Holiday
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to its death by its mother turning over on it in bed, which was as we believe an accident

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Joseph P. Nabor's

Source

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