The State vs. the Dead Body of Learma Butler

Date: 
November 7, 1890

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death from rheumatism of the Heart ... by natural causes

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at W.H. Folks plantation

Source

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