The State vs. the Dead Body of Jack

Date: 
May 14, 1852

Deceased

Jack
Description: 
negro boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Owner: 
E. P. H. Kirksey
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oathes do say that the said negro boy Jack then and there voluntarily and feloniously himself did Kill by drowning in the mill pong

Coroner

Coroner: 
Daniel White
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of H. W. Posey
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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