The State vs. the Dead Body of Grover Cassidy

Date: 
December 3, 1885

Deceased

Grover Cassidy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: That the Said Grover Casidy came to his death on the 3d day of December A D 1885 form som nautral causes or causes unknown to the jurors

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. D. Tiller
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at W. F. Pates
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

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

Margret E. Pate Sworn Deceased Mother went to pick cotton and told me to come and give him Deceased something to eat for he was a sleep I came to house between 8 & 9 oclock and he was still asleep I came again about 11 oclock and he was still asleep and I though he had slep long anough and I tuned him over I found he was dead. the child was healthy the Deceased waa lying on his face . . . Deceased was about 9 months old

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