The State vs. the Dead Body of negro child

the child had froth running out of its nose

Date: 
October 11, 1857

Deceased

negro child
Description: 
negro child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Child: 
child
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
T. C. Lester
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by strangling or choking with phlegm

Coroner

Coroner: 
Henry M. Smith
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at T. C. Lesters
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

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