The State vs. the Dead Body of Dolly Young

Date: 
March 12, 1879

Deceased

Dolly Young
Description: 
child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
three weeks old
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upont their oaths do say that the said Dolly Young . . . came to her death by accident or smuthering or by misclued[?]

Coroner

Coroner: 
William Bayne
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Greenville
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

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