The State vs. the Dead Body of Dinah

Date: 
January 25, 1859

Deceased

Dinah
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
John Gregory
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Heart
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she died of [?] of the heart which has been protracted[?] for the last ten or twelve months

Coroner

Coroner: 
G. L. Gregory
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the late residence of John Gregory deseast
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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