The State vs. the Dead Body of Lewis

Date: 
March 27, 1865

Deceased

Lewis
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
E. S. Ray
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

that he came to his from a gun shot wound through the neck passing out at his jaw and the said show was from a gun in the hands of some person unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. M. Elford
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at or near the residence of [?] Gossett
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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