The State vs. the Dead Body of Clarissa Kiericon

Date: 
August 12, 1866

Deceased

Clarissa Kiericon
Description: 
freedwoman
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the woman Clarissa Kiericon (Freedwoman) came to her death by the act of Providence

Coroner

Coroner: 
George W. H. Legg
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Spartanburg C. House
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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