The State vs. the Dead Body of Dick

Date: 
July 13, 1859

Deceased

Dick
Description: 
male slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Ted Scurry
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say. . .that he came to his death by going in to the Saluda River and got in Deep water an drowned

Coroner

Coroner: 
Lewis Culbreath
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Ted Scurrys residence
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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