The State vs. the Dead Body of Hattie Smalls

Date (Partial/Ambiguous): 
1893--

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say, That Hattie Smalls, in manner and form aforsaid came to her death by having burned[?] to death accidently

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at C.B. Blair's

Source

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