The State vs. the Dead Body of John Williams

Date: 
June 23, 1867

Deceased

John Williams
Description: 
freed person infant
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that . . .it came to its death by being smuthered by him in her sleep

Coroner

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

Location

Inquest Location: 
at John Meadows
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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