The State vs. the Dead Body of Siller

Date: 
November 12, 1842

Deceased

Siller
Description: 
female slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Levy Gregory
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that . . .the said Siller axcidently caught fire in her beding whilst a sleep, and from inability to help her Self ware burned to death

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. Gregory
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at an oald wast house in the plantation of Mrs Susannah Turners
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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