The State vs. the Dead Body of Hardy McKinney

Date: 
July 28, 1867

Deceased

Hardy McKinney
Description: 
freedman
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that said decd being diseased came to his death by the visitation of God

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. D. Sitton
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at an old field near F. Wyne's
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

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