The State vs. the Dead Body of Cooper

Date: 
March 17, 1852

Deceased

Cooper
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
L. H. Mundy
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Stomach
COD Inquest Finding: 

where & when & by what means the Said Slave, Cooper came to his death By acute Gastro Duodinitis[?]

Coroner

Coroner: 
Wiley Timmerman
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of L.H. Mundy decd
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
L19077_0001_147.jpg
L19077_0001_148.jpg

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