The State vs. the Dead Body of A. R. Steel

Date: 
August 28, 1869

Deceased

A. R. Steel
Description: 
girl child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
13 months
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

the said A.R. Steel came to her death do say That the deceased came to her death by an act of Providence [?] accidentally falling into a tub of water about six inches deep

Coroner

Coroner: 
D. A. Foskett
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Graniteville
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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