The State vs. the Dead Body of Barbara Milam

Date: 
September 25, 1850

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
axe
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that She came to her Death by violence inflicted upon her person and by burning, the bruises having been first inflicted. They find the bruises & cuts upon and about the head and face inflicted with an axe or other heavy weapon - from the circumstances they conclude the blows to have been inflicted by the negro woman Eliot, the property of Milam the husband of Deceased.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at T R Milams
County: 

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Eliot
Perpetrator Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Inquest Images: 
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