The State vs. the Dead Body of Jane Laniere

Date: 
August 13, 1880

Deceased

Jane Laniere
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Heart
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said Jane Lanier died in the woods near the public road leading from Pendleton to Williamston at the 4 mile post . . .by no foul means but by a disease of the heart

Coroner

Coroner: 
Larkin Newton
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of G. B. Whiton
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

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