The State vs. the Dead Body of Hary

Date: 
January 10, 1857

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Child: 
child
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
wagon
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say Hary was helping lead a waggon with Cotton and the boy fell from the waggon[.] he was taken to[?] a[?] house[?] not[?] fifty yards before he died but was dead in a few minutes

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Winnsboro

Source

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