The State vs. the Dead Body of Dorcas Henderson

Date: 
November 11, 1855

Deceased

Dorcas Henderson
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
child
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that from the best information that they could gather that they think the child. . .Dorcas Henderson came to its death on account of having had an excessive portion of spiritous liquor given to it by a free boy of color named Tobe

Coroner

Coroner: 
Elias Wall
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Jackson Henderson's
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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