The State vs. the Dead Body of Peyton Bird

Date: 
September 29, 1869

Deceased

Peyton Bird
Description: 
colored
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Heart
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say as follows: That we the Jurors find that the deceased Peyton Bird came to his death by visitation of God from rupture of a blood vessel called Aorta

Coroner

Coroner: 
O. H. Hart
Coroner Title: 
magistrate and acting coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Edgefield CH
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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