The State vs. the Dead Body of infant

Date: 
January 22, 1894

Deceased

infant
Description: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Henrietta[?] Gilchrist
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that the said Infant Came to its death from a cause unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Brunson
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Oak Gilchrist House
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
L19077_0001_765.jpg
L19077_0001_766.jpg
Transcription: 

find malformation of posterior part of the accifent[?]

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