The State vs. the Dead Body of Moses

Date: 
December 8, 1850

Deceased

Moses
Description: 
free person of color
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Moses came to his death by no means of violence byt being old and infirm frozed [sic] to death

Coroner

Coroner: 
J.[?] T.[?] Lanford
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Robert McCurley[?]
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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