The State vs. the Dead Body of Willie Hendrix Stricklin

Date: 
March 23, 1901

Deceased

Willie Hendrix Stricklin
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

I have this day helt a perliminary examination over the dad body of Willie Hendrix Stricklin and from the evidence of witnesses I do not deam it nesary to hold an inqest but from Such witness find that the sed Willie Hendrix Stricklin came to his dath from none others than natural causes

Coroner

Coroner: 
John L. Woodard
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
[no location given]
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

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

Sallie Perdue being sworn ses I come and striped the dead Child I saw some blood on hit colse hit looke like blood water and some in his move
Nicy Dickson being sworn sis . . . I heard Mary Crying his wife and he cald and sed the babt wad dead and I ask what Kild hit and he sed Mary Smothered hit

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