The State vs. the Dead Body of Hanah

Date: 
November 2, 1861

Deceased

Hanah
Description: 
infant Child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Owner: 
A. M. Lotta[?]
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say . . .the child was found dead . . .from bieng overlaid by its parents or some other unknown means to them in bed

Coroner

Coroner: 
William M. Dunn
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Cooperville
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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