The State vs. the Dead Body of Eugenia Richardson

Date (Partial/Ambiguous): 
1880--

Deceased

Eugenia Richardson
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she was accidently over layed by her mother and smothered to death, and came to her death by misfortune or accident.

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. W. Evans

Location

Inquest Location: 
on James McGill's plantation
County: 
Fairfield County, SC

Source

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