The State vs. the Dead Body of Jane

Date: 
December 31, 1840

Deceased

Jane
Description: 
infant negro
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the child was accidently overlayed by its mother

Coroner

Coroner: 
Isaac Gregory
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at E. M. Gregory's
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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