The State vs. the Dead Body of negro Child

Date: 
August 27, 1849

Deceased

negro Child
Description: 
negro Child
Race: 
Black
Child: 
child
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
J. C. Mingo
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say . . .that the said child was axcidently or negligently Smothered and killed by its mother in her Sleep

Coroner

Coroner: 
Isaac Gregory
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at James C. Mingo
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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