The State vs. the Dead Body of Aleck Dorsey

Question did you see the bones [of your son] removed from the house place to the spot they were buried Answer I did and there are the same bones.

Date: 
March 23, 1877

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that he come to his death by the accidental burning of a house on the above noted plantation on the 22nd day of March A.D. 1877 about 8 or 9 O Clock in the morning

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice acting as Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at J.W. Coleman's plantation

Source

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