The State vs. the Dead Body of infant

I believe them to be the skull bones of an infant born at full time.

Date: 
November 28, 1829

Deceased

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
unknown
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the remains of an infant born at "full time" were found in a smoke house, suspiciuosly concealed in a jar with lime on the lot on which Mr. Thomas Welch[?] resided; but how, or when the infant came to its death we know not.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
in Camden on the lot on which Mr. Thomas Welsh[?] resided
County: 

Source

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