The State vs. the Dead Body of Alcy

Date: 
July 22, 1851

Deceased

Description: 
negro child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the dieast came to its death by being overlaid by its mother

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at B. J. Gregory's
County: 

Source

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