The State vs. the Dead Body of Jane

Date: 
April 16, 1849

Deceased

Jane
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
John J. E. Gregory
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths doo say that . . .the said Jane was accidently or unknowinly smuthered by her mother or some one Else in bead

Coroner

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

Location

Inquest Location: 
at John J. E. Gregory's
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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