The State vs. the Dead Body of Aron

Date: 
June 15, 1862

Deceased

Aron
Description: 
slave, boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Jones Tompkins
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
vine
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that the boy came to his death by commiting suicide by hanging himself with a vine to a dogwood tree

Coroner

Coroner: 
D. P. Self
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
near the White house
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
L19077_0001_375.jpg

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