The State vs. the Dead Body of Dorcas Crossly

Date: 
December 4, 1857

Deceased

Dorcas Crossly
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say by falling the ifre and burning to death there being no person present at the time we suppose she had a fit as she was subject to having fits

Coroner

Coroner: 
Hiram White
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of John Wofford
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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