The State vs. the Dead Body of Unknown

Date: 
March 26, 1877

Deceased

Unknown
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said child came to its death by being accidently overlain by its Mother, and was smothered to death.

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. W. Evans

Location

Inquest Location: 
at James McGill's
County: 
Fairfield County, SC

Source

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

Personally came before me Mary Hopkins the Mother of the above mentioned Child, and makes oath that the child was certainly accidently smothered by herself.

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