The State vs. the Dead Body of Martha M. Kerr

Date: 
March 10, 1881

Deceased

Martha M. Kerr
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Lungs
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Martha M. Kerr came to her death by the act of God: hemorage of the lungs

Coroner

Coroner: 
Thomas P. Gaston
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Edward L. Kerr
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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