The State vs. the Dead Body of Blassingame Wise

Date: 
April 27, 1848

Deceased

Blassingame Wise
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say, that . . .the decd Blassingame Wise, . . .came to his death by voluntarily drowing himself in Savannah River

Coroner

Coroner: 
Robert Anderson
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at or near the Negro quarter of Mrs Wiley Glover, on Savannah River
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

he the decd would say that he was going to die, soon and would frequently bid them all farewell, his father his father as well as others, & that on Friday, the day following 21 inst he attempted to go off when he brought him back to his Store in Hamburg, but about 10 Oclock (A.M.) he succeeded in getting away from him & Others when they were fearful he might distroy himself, he made pursuit after him

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