The State vs. the Dead Body of Unknown

saw the carkas [sic] of a freedman ... was partly eat up except legs and thighs

Date: 
August 30, 1866

Deceased

Unknown
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there Oaths do say from all circumstances he came to his death by the Visitation of God as the body had bin dead some time and the flesh was consumed or decayed from the skeleton the bones was all hole[?]

Coroner

Coroner: 
James Perry
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Fosity[?] Creek ford
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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