The State vs. the Dead Body of infant child

Date: 
January 10, 1892

Deceased

infant child
Description: 
infant child
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Janie Myers
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that deat was produced from suffocation . . . after a long spell of sickness

Coroner

Coroner: 
B. P. Covar
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Trenton
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
L19077_0001_645.jpg
L19077_0001_646.jpg

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