The State vs. the Dead Body of Doublin

Date: 
April 5, 1857

Deceased

Doublin
Description: 
male slave, boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Mrs. Delilah Philips
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Brain
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say. . .that the deceased Doublin in manner and form aforesaid came to his death by a Providential occurrence under the influence of an apoplectic fit.

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Quattlebaum
Coroner Title: 
M.E.D. acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the Residence of Mrs Delila Philips
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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