The State vs. the Dead Body of Sallie Young

Date: 
December 8, 1890

Deceased

Sallie Young
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Sallie Young came to her death by being burned to death by fire from accident

Coroner

Coroner: 
B. P. Covar
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Mr A. F Broadwaters Plantation
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

Julia Hightower was burned from fire Which She inhaled & extending down the throat & entering the body

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