The State vs. the Dead Body of Unknown Colored Man about 60 years old

Date: 
May 15, 1893

Deceased

Description: 
Unknown Colored Man about 60 years old
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oathes do say that the said colored man came to his death from inflamation of the left hand and arm of phlegmonous character and for want of proper attention, that he died some time about the 13th inst.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
on the plantation of D.D. Simpson
County: 

Source

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