The State vs. the Dead Body of infant

Date: 
November 20, 1844

Deceased

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Violet Ally
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

we found on examining the body a tumor on the sacram with some deformations near the fundament, that these appeared to us sufficient to produce death

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Henry Alley

Source

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