The State vs. the Dead Body of negro child

Date: 
July 13, 1835

Deceased

negro child
Description: 
negro child
Race: 
Black
Child: 
child
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
John Saunders
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that The said child . . .died by the visitation of God in a natural way

Coroner

Coroner: 
Samuel Davis
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house or on the plantation of Charles Humphries
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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