The State vs. the Dead Body of Phillis

Date: 
August 18, 1831

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that, according to all the testimony adduced to them, they are inclined to believe, that on the 17th instant, the said Phillis being often last spring, complaining of Hysterical, vapours she was taken with a Hysteric Attack which caused her death

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Charles P. Stone

Source

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