The State vs. the Dead Body of Lizzie Greeg

Date: 
July 4, 1884

Deceased

Lizzie Greeg
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Lungs
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths aforesaid do say that the aforesaid Lizzie Greeg Came to her death from natural Causes

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. M. Corley
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Capt Taliar[?] Hearin[?]
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

the said Child has been suffering from Consumption and had Hemorage from the lungs which produced Death

I was not nearer than ten feet from her when she fell she would have fallen[?] had I not of Caught her and laid her down she was throughing up Blood after throughing up she made two Gaps and died

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