The State vs. the Dead Body of Griffin

Date: 
December 26, 1860

Deceased

Griffin
Description: 
Infant Childe
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say the child come it death by accident or mischance by smuthering or some way unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
John P. McKissick
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Andy [?]
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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

Infant Childe of William Griffin

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