The State vs. the Dead Body of Dick

Date: 
May 25, 1845

Deceased

Dick
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
T. W. Waters
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
small rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the above named Dick not having the fear of God before his eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation fo the Devil did voluntarily hang himself with a small rope on a limb of a walnut tree

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. T. Norman[?]
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of Margaret Montgomery's near Sedar [sic] Shoal Creek
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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