The State vs. the Dead Body of infant child

Date: 
September 15, 1861

Deceased

infant child
Description: 
infant child
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Elizabeth Hallman
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Fall
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that the said infant child of Elizabeth Hallman was. . .born dead being prematurely Delivered its Delivery being caused by and injury received by the mother in a fall

Coroner

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

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of Mrs Margret Willis
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

the Mother of the child told here that she hid the child in the woods to prevent here delivery being discovered

she think the child was born not in the house but in the garden ... Mrs Willias[?] thinks that the child was nearly or quite up to its full time for delivery

the Mother of the child who said she was delivered of the child that she was alone at the time

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