The State vs. the Dead Body of Lizzie Darian

Date: 
November 21, 1894

Deceased

Lizzie Darian
Description: 
child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
about three years
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that the said Lizzie Darion came to her death by mischance, the burning of the house it was left in by what means it caught on fire is unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
Theophilus Dean
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Waldo Richardsons
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

when I came the House was falling in Coleman was here they had taken the child out of the fire

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