The State vs. the Dead Body of Julia Hightower

my next Youngest child had put her out With Water

Date: 
November 9, 1890

Deceased

Description: 
child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that She came to her death from being burn by accident

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Mr Sam Marshes Place

Source

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