The State vs. the Dead Body of Sally E. Hanna

Date: 
October 19, 1875

Deceased

Sally E. Hanna
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: That the said Sallie E Hanna came to her death by being smothered, accidently during the night of the 18th Inst

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. D. Tiller
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Chesterfield C. H.
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

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

Dollie Hanna Sworn The child was alive last night when she went to sleep she got up about sun rise this morning did not notice the child when she got up. . . When she went to the child it was dead

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