The State vs. the Dead Body of Infant child of Amanda Williams

Date (Partial/Ambiguous): 
1891--

Deceased

Sex: 
Unknown
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say having viewed the dead body of Amanda Williams infant and heard the evidence of witnesses and this our verdict that it came to its death form congestion of the lungs.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of Alex Cockerell

Source

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