The State vs. the Dead Body of Elmira Jackson

Date: 
May 18, 1884

Deceased

Elmira Jackson
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
6 years old
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that Elmira Jackson Come to her death from accidental Burning

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. M. Corley
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

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

Source

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

Elmira Jackson is her Daughter and is 6 years old I was at the Spring working when Elmira Jackson Caught on fire I left Elmira Jane and the Baby in the House Elmira the one Burnt kept saying she was Cold and kept standing a round the fire and Jane said she could not get her away from the fire

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