The State vs. the Dead Body of Sarah Arledge

Date: 
April 22, 1812

Deceased

Sarah Arledge
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Exposure
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oath that the said infant child as aforesaid came to its death by being lost in the woods & perished to death by hunger and cold on the night of the twelfth of this Instant on Meeting House Branch

Coroner

Coroner: 
Joseph Mickle
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Meeting House Branch
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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