The State vs. the Dead Body of Infant Boy Child Colored

Date: 
February 15, 1883

Deceased

Infant Boy Child Colored
Description: 
Infant Boy Child Colored
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Elrina[?] Clemans
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say the Child Come its death from natural causes

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. D. Allen
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of Charles Coleman
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
L19077_0001_556.jpg
L19077_0001_557.jpg
Transcription: 

she had Colic and denied being pregnant to the last ... said it was born dead ... Elrina was 16 years old

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