The State vs. the Dead Body of Elsie Starks

Date (Partial/Ambiguous): 
1883--

Deceased

Elsie Starks
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Heart
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to her death from some cause uknown to the Jury between two & seven Oclock the 21st Jan 1883[.]

Coroner

Coroner: 
G. S. Hinnant

Location

Inquest Location: 
at N.C. Roberts' place
County: 
Fairfield County, SC

Source

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

Adline Brown Sworn says she lives with Curtis Davis left the deceased at Curtis Daviss last night stayed with Mary on the same plantation came back to Curtis on the morning of the 21st Jan the family had not got up awoke the family found her dead.

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