The State vs. the Dead Body of Infant Boy Child

Date: 
June 18, 1883

Deceased

Infant Boy Child
Description: 
Infant Boy Child
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say . . .the Child come to its death accidentally or by being smutherd

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. M. Corley
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Marsh Grobe Yard
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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