The State vs. the Dead Body of Lindy Jones

Date: 
March 15, 1882

Deceased

Lindy Jones
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oath do say that Lindy Jones Came to her death from accidental Burning

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. M. Corley
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at George Holingsworth House
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

E B Williams being duly sworn I sent Lindy Jones ... to burn off some sage in about one hour after she was gone her mother Come to me and said Lindy was Burnt I come over to her House I found her Baddly Burnt

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