The State vs. the Dead Body of Bessie Marshal

Date: 
November 22, 1893

Deceased

Bessie Marshal
Description: 
child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say "that Bessie Marshal came to her death by the hand of Providence, at the house of Henry Foster, on the 22nd day of November 1893."

Coroner

Coroner: 
G. W. Moore
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Henry Foster's
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

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

N. R. Harris being sworn says I have examined the body of the child, Bessie Marshal, and find in my opinion that she has died a natural death. The history of her case causes me to believe that the child died from general prostrations, or weakness, aggravated by a contstant cough.

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