The State vs. the Dead Body of Violet Gray

Date: 
February 25, 1877

Deceased

Violet Gray
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Violet Gray came to her death by accidentally falling into the fire and burning to death at her own home

Coroner

Coroner: 
S. B. Ezell
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Violet Gray
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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