The State vs. the Dead Body of Clem

Date: 
October 3, 1858

Deceased

Description: 
slave, boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Child: 
child
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid Lem[?] came to his death by the accident firing of a gun in his own hands

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Tabitha Abney's

Source

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