The State vs. the Dead Body of Elijah

Date: 
February 8, 1860

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Child: 
child
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Infant Slave "Elijah" the property of Eliza Jane Hughes (A Mintor) came to its death by accident by being overlain either by its mother or another child of hers

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of D.r J. H. Norman
County: 

Source

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