The State vs. the Dead Body of Fletcher McFarland

Date: 
January 17, 1881

Deceased

Fletcher McFarland
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say That the Said Fletcher McFarland came to his death by being burned and that it was accidently

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. D. Tiller
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Davis McFarlands
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

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

Angeline McFarland Sworn Is the mother of the child Fletcher McFarland . . . . I was at the spring after water and I heard some one screaming in the home, and I run [???] in the house. I hurried over meet the child whr clothes was burning down below the waist fom her neck down This was on Saturday evening the 15thth of January 1881 -- and died on the 16 th January following . . .
Robert Davis "Sworn" I am acquainted with the "witness" Angeline McFarland who I know to be a very careful person with her children, and devoted to her children -- I also know the father of the child and I believe there was no foul play occurring . . .

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