The State vs. the Dead Body of unnamed infant

Date: 
September 8, 1855

Deceased

unnamed infant
Description: 
unnamed infant
Sex: 
Unknown
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Catharine Montgomery
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Childbirth
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say That upon a Post-morten examination, that from the decomposed state of the Child, having been dead 8 days and buried 7 days, that we can not see any sign of violence or Poesen,--but from the emty state of the Childs Stomach and Bowels, believe that the death of the Child was caused by withholding the necessary nurishment, from its Mothers breast, or otherwise

Coroner

Coroner: 
David R. Newton
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the Plantation of the late William Montgomery
County: 
Horry County, SC

Source

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

Dr. W. K. Cuckon's Report . . . . It is My Opinion that the principal cause of the Childs death was the lejature of the cord around the neck causing the engorgment of the lungs & Brain

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