The State vs. the Dead Body of Sam

Date: 
October 19, 1856

Deceased

Sam
Description: 
negro man
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Mrs. Mary Mills
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

that said boy came to his death. . .by being Run over by the night express train

Coroner

Coroner: 
Benjamin Baird
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
on the track of the South Carolina Rail Road between the Paper Mill and Marsh's
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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