The State vs. the Dead Body of Hester Mobley

Date: 
June 27, 1868

Deceased

Hester Mobley
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Heart
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say . . . that from the testimony the Said Hester Mobley came to her death by the desease, She was Suffering from, The disease of the Heart.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Robert Hawthorn
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate acting as Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at David Gladney's
County: 
Fairfield County, SC

Source

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