The State vs. the Dead Body of infant

Date: 
December 24, 1882

Deceased

infant
Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Carrie Dogwood
COD Category: 
Natural Causes

Coroner

Coroner: 
Rufus C. Ray
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of Miss Mary Bridges
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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

Cora Doget Testimony. I went to bed and after I lay down put it to be brest and it scream out three times then went to sucking and then went to sleep. I also went to sleep. when I woke up I found its head being on my arm, its face ratehr turn under my Breast and it was dead. Corry her mark Doget

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