The State vs. the Dead Body of Georgianna Watts

Date: 
October 11, 1891

Deceased

Georgianna Watts
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Parent(s): 
Carrie Watts
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

by their oaths do say, that she came to her death, By being burnt in the house, it being burnt on her By Accident.

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. P. Sloan
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at R.O. Hairstons
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

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

Carrie Watts sworn, says She lives with Mr Robt Hairston. I am the Mother of Georgianna Watts I saw the fire when I got hom the house was full of fire and beginning to fall in. My children were both living when I left them, there was no one with them or about the house that I know of. There was very little fire in the house...

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