The State vs. the Dead Body of Matilda Hall

Date: 
June 28, 1880

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that the said Matilda Hall came to her death by heart disease,-the act of Almighty God.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice Acting Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at residence of deceased on plantation of C.S. Brice

Source

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