The State vs. the Dead Body of infant

Date: 
September 20, 1857

Deceased

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Jane Arnold
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon our oaths do say . . .that the child's death came by bleeding at the navel or umbilicus but we think if the child had received proper attention it would have survived

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Jared[?] Arnold's

Source

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