The State vs. the Dead Body of Kizziah[?]

Date: 
March 11, 1860

Deceased

Kizziah[?]
Description: 
slave, servant
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
M. Lanham
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that the said Kisziah came to her death. . .from the Visitation of God in a natural way

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. P. Mealing
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of Mr M Lanham
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

he waked up in the night felt the woman girking shook her to wake here she groaned but could not wake made a light she was dead by the time he got back to the bead

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