The State vs. the Dead Body of slave

Date: 
May 31, 1832

Deceased

slave
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Isaac Mothershed
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

do unanimously believed that the said negro woman deceased formerly the property of Isaac Mothershed now lying Dead came to her death by an act of God

Coroner

Coroner: 
John J. Jones
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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