The State vs. the Dead Body of Lucy Ellen Jane Rivers

Date: 
November 9, 1882

Deceased

Lucy Ellen Jane Rivers
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do Say That the Said Lucy Ellen Jane Rivers came to her death by accidental burning Nov 9th 1882

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. D. Tiller
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Chesterfield C. H.
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

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

Jane Hammond Sworn Says the child was still lying her it was when I go there with all the clothing burned off except a few rans under it and the child was dead witness is of the belief that the child caught accidental
Lucy Rivers Sworn Says she left house about Sun rise and left all 4 of her children I n the House when She heard that her child was burned She returned and found it dead. . .

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