The State vs. the Dead Body of infant child

Date: 
October 6, 1891

Deceased

infant child
Description: 
infant child
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Jane Turner
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do Say that the Child Came to its death from Strangulation.

Coroner

Coroner: 
B. P. Covar
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at her Residence
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

I was in the Cotton patch Picking Cotton I Came to the house and found My Child on its face in the Sand it was dead when I got to it and Albert Williams was Standing by the Child Slapping it on the head

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