The State vs. the Dead Body of Henrietta Brown

Date: 
January 9, 1878

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say the deceased came to her death by her clothes taking fie, and was burned to death.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice acting as Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Thomas Blair's plantation

Source

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