The State vs. the Dead Body of Lona May Hamilton

Date: 
October 18, 1893

Deceased

Lona May Hamilton
Description: 
child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
three and a half months old
Child: 
child
Parent(s): 
Julia Nobles
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that she said Lona May Hamilton came to death. . .on the plantation of J.A. Deale. . .by accidental suffication

Coroner

Coroner: 
T. J. White
Coroner Title: 
acting coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at or near Longmires PO[?]
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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