The State vs. the Dead Body of Lizzie Coleman

Date (Partial/Ambiguous): 
1884--

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say that the child Lizzie, Coleman, came to her death by burning in a house on the Plantation of Capt A.P. Irby's the 21st of Nov 1884 the origin of the fire unknown to the jury[.]

Coroner

Coroner: 

Location

Inquest Location: 
at A.P. Irby's plantation

Source

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