The State vs. the Dead Body of Drusilla Philips

Date: 
June 18, 1840

Deceased

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

do Say upon their oaths that; the said Drusilla Philips on the 17th day of June in the year one thousand Eight Hundred and forty one at Abram Philips her husbands own House, in the distrct afore said was found dead that she had no Marks of violence upon her and died by the visitation of God in a natural way and not otherwise.

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Abram Philips
County: 

Source

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