The State vs. the Dead Body of Freeman Cook

Date: 
March 18, 1896

Deceased

Freeman Cook
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Freeman Cook came to his death from natural causes.

Coroner

Coroner: 
R. L. Henry
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate

Location

Inquest Location: 
at John Cook's
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

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

Eliza Cook being sworn says that on the night of the 17th of March 1896 Freeman Cook commense coughing about one olcock, witness says she got up and took Freeman Cook up to the fire witness says he slept so long I went to the bed to see what was the matter and I found him dead..

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