The State vs. the Dead Body of William Hutchins

and found his youngest child washed partly upon a rock with his head and shoulders under it in the watter [sic]. He runt to it and ketched up but never could see any signs of life

Date: 
December 9, 1840

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
three years old
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

on oath that we believe that said child comes to his death by accident of falling or slipping in [the Maple Swamp] creek and being drowned near Wm. Smith's mill

Coroner

Coroner: 

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Equilla Burns's[?]

Source

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