The State vs. the Dead Body of Unknown

Date (Partial/Ambiguous): 
1886--

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid Infant came to his death from Premature birth[.]

Coroner

Coroner: 
G. S. Hinnant

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Davis Lyles'[?] place
County: 
Fairfield County, SC

Source

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

Nancy Ashford Sworn Says she heard Ellen call her the morning the child was born went to her and found that Wes Hill's wife had a baby it was alive & lived about half hour, it was buried between nine & ten oclock.

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