The State vs. the Dead Body of Emaline Jackson

Date: 
August 27, 1894

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
about seventy
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that from the evidence before us by misfortune and that said misfortune was caused by the bursting of an artery And So the said jurors aforesaid, do say, that the aforesaid Emaline Jackson came to her death in manner and form

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Dr Childs Plantation

Source

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