The State vs. the Dead Body of Martha Boone

Date: 
January 16, 1896

Deceased

Martha Boone
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: that the said Martha Boone came to her death by accidental burning

Coroner

Coroner: 
C. M. Hunt
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at A. B. Merrimans place
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

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

Mary Johnson being sworn says . . . I saw the smoke coming out of Mr. Dunk Boone house. I though the house was on fire. I ran to the house the door was fastened. I looked through the lock I could see the feet of Mrs. Martha Boone the house was burning in side deceased was on the fire place head under and the back in the flurry. I don't know what caused the house to catch fire without deceased fell in the fire and caught from her cloths . . .

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