The State vs. the Dead Body of infant

Date: 
July 28, 1836

Deceased

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Nancy Owens
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that Nancy Owens of. . .district is living at the house of sd district is the mother and murderer of sd. Child which they have examined but how killed they could not tell.

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the palntation of Mr. Richard Shotford[?]
County: 

Source

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