The State vs. the Dead Body of Mary Jane Johnson

Date: 
September 25, 1856

Deceased

Mary Jane Johnson
Description: 
child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that they believe . . .that it Came to its by the visitation of God

Coroner

Coroner: 
Edwin M. Gregory
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Sarah [?] house
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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

Lydia Jonson, the mother of the child being sworn sayeth that her child cried some time in the night witness say she Let it suck witness says that she wake up in the morning of the 25th Inst & found her child dead but how it came to its death she is not able to say witness further says she was not on the child in any way

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