The State vs. the Dead Body of James Frazier

Date: 
October 24, 1890

Deceased

James Frazier
Description: 
Babie
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths aforesaid do say that the aforesaid James Frazier did die from Suffocation

Coroner

Coroner: 
B. P. Covar
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at D. B Hollingworth
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

Went to bed about Eight Oclock last night I woke up little after midnight & my Babie Was crying I Woke up my husband and he got up and give it Seven drops of panegoric[?] and the Babie Went to Sleep again and after that I awoke again about five oclock and found my Babies feet Cold and examined further and found it dead

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