The State vs. the Dead Body of Fanny Sullivan

Date (Partial/Ambiguous):

Noveember 18, 1882

Fanny Sullivan

Sex:

Female

Race:

White

COD Category:

Natural Causes

COD:

COD Inquest Finding:

upon their oaths do say that on the 17th day of November 1882 Fanny Sullivan came to her death by a disease of the Heart and appoplexy.

Coroner:

Coroner Title:

Trial Justice

Inquest Location:

at JS Martins

County:

South Carolina Department of Archives & History

Columbia, SC

Inquest Images:

Transcription:

John Saxon sworn says that he found Fanny Sullican lying with her feet out of the door, could speak and had spasms and when he returned she was dead.

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