The State vs. the Dead Body of Rose Brodie

Date: 
June 5, 1897

Deceased

Rose Brodie
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Rose Brodie came to her death by from natural causes

Coroner

Coroner: 
E. B. Ingram
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate

Location

Inquest Location: 
on MacFarland plantation
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

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

Penella Brodie sworn says When I woke up this morning he was laying on the bed. . . I called her she never answered . . . she was dead. She was not sick last night when she went to bed . . .

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