The State vs. the Dead Body of infant child

said Anna your baby is dead she hollowed and screamed and fainted away

Date: 
January 18, 1892

Deceased

infant child
Description: 
infant child
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
nine days old
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Anna Eliza Ashley
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say from suffocation

Coroner

Coroner: 
B. P. Covar
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the Plantation of L. G. Swearinger
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
L19077_0001_647.jpg
L19077_0001_648.jpg

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