The State vs. the Dead Body of Henry

Date: 
November 23, 1860

Deceased

Henry
Description: 
male infant slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Berry Shell
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

uppon their oaths do say that the Decest Came to his death by accidental overlaying of his Mother & smothering to death

Coroner

Coroner: 
Edwin M. Gregory
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Berry Shells House
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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