The State vs. the Dead Body of Selena Allen

Date: 
December 12, 1890

Deceased

Selena Allen
Description: 
child, boy, baby
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Selena Allen came to her death from Strangulation

Coroner

Coroner: 
B. P. Covar
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Mrs Blacks[?] Plantation
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

the child was in the cradle and I Saw that it Was Strangled

I heard a rattling in it throat and found something like corruption in its throat and phlegm running from its nose and Mouth it had a redish look

Mary Allen ... says I am the Mother of the dead child I was not at home I was over at my sisters in laws ... It had a very bad cold ... Rebeca nursed all my children she has never mistreated them any way

death Was due to strangulation due to an accumulation of Mucus

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