The State vs. the Dead Body of James Edward Settle

he is subject to fits I have to keep him tied all the time

Date: 
March 9, 1884

Deceased

James Edward Settle
Description: 
boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
fourteen years old
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Exposure
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon there [?] that said James Edward Settle Came to his death from Epellepcy and Starvation

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. M. Corley
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
on Henry Hill Plantation
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

he has been subject to Epilepcy and supposed to have died from an attack of the same

this is my son he left my House three weeks ago he was fourteen years old he is subject to fits I have to keep him tied all the time he was not rational at any time

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