The State vs. the Dead Body of Dora Jackson

Date: 
December 26, 1893

Deceased

Dora Jackson
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths aforesaid do say that the deceased Dora Jackson came to her death in the manner and from aforesaid that is from natural causes

Coroner

Coroner: 
C. M. Hunt
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
near Cheraw
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

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

Jane Jackson being duly sown says, Dora Jackson the deceased was my sister. I found her dead in the house when we lived near Cheraw . . . She was lying on her side when I found her. I don't know how long she had been dead. . . I left her that morning, she had been complaining with her keens for some time, there was two little children and the baby with her when I found. I saw no marks of violence on her . . .

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