The State vs. the Dead Body of Lousay

Date: 
November 25, 1860

Deceased

Lousay
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that the said Loosey came to here death by accidnetal Burning

Coroner

Coroner: 
M. B. Whittle
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Doct John E. Padgett
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
L19077_0001_347.jpg
L19077_0001_348.jpg
Transcription: 

says that ant Loocy went out in the rain and was wet and I cared here in the kitchen and made up a fire and dried here cloths and went to my house and some time after I returned to the kitchen and found Loocy Lying on here back and here cloths burnt of here and burnt to death

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