The State vs. the Dead Body of negro child

Date: 
February 17, 1850

Deceased

negro child
Description: 
negro child
Race: 
Black
Child: 
child
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
James Ellis
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the Female child came to its death by mischance being accidentally smothered

Coroner

Coroner: 
Isaac Gregory
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of James Ellises
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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