The State vs. the Dead Body of Samuel Harrison

Date: 
February 18, 1881

Deceased

Samuel Harrison
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
Parent(s): 
Milley Worthington
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say they Believe that . . .Samme Harison Came to his death by the Carlesnes of his Mother Milley Worthington

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. M. Corley
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at [inelligible - faded]
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

Milley Worthington who being duly sworn says that Samme Harison is her son hear lying dead was not the at the time the Child Was Burnt and there was no one at the house at the time did not ask anyone to stay at the House in her absence did not call any doctor at all had been gone at Least 3 Hours and when she Come back found the Child Burnt was no one in the house

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