The State vs. the Dead Body of Charles

Date: 
July 31, 1851

Deceased

Charles
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
John M. Norris
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Head Trauma
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that by his head being mashed and and his scull broken at the gin house of John M. Norris . . .by the gin running gear, his head passing between the cogs and trunal[?] head, rounds or Wollower

Coroner

Coroner: 
Abraham Jones
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of John M. Norris Esqr in Edgefield
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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L19077_0001_108.jpg

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