The State vs. the Dead Body of Chaney Pilgrim

Date: 
August 12, 1877

Deceased

Chaney Pilgrim
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
four month old
Parent(s): 
Julia Pilgrim
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid Chaney Pilgrim came to her death while in the bed with her mother Julia Pilrim. . .from some cause or causes unknown to the jury

Coroner

Coroner: 
S. B. Ezell
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of James Anderson
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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