The State vs. the Dead Body of Patsy Johnston

Date (Partial/Ambiguous): 
1887--

Deceased

Patsy Johnston
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oath do say that the aforesaid Patsy Johnston came to her death from scrofula.

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. [?] Gladney[?]

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Bell plantation
County: 
Fairfield County, SC

Source

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

Testimony of Wm Johnston who being duly sworn says I live in county and State aforesiad on the Williford plantation I left my little girl Patsy Johnston in my house setting at the fire on the morning of November the 8th A.D. 1887 I got back home about noon I found my daughter Patsy Johnston aged five years lying in the bed dead...

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