The State vs. the Dead Body of Sis Bonham

Date: 
February 18, 1894

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say: that the child came to its death by having a quilt over it face and in our opinion sufficated

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at M.B. Davenports

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
L19077_0001_784.jpg
L19077_0001_785.jpg

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