The State vs. the Dead Body of Fan

Date: 
October 1, 1833

Deceased

Fan
Description: 
Negro Woman
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
John Rogers
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon there oaths that she came to her death by voluntarily hanging herself

Coroner

Coroner: 
Thomas Stribling
Coroner Title: 
QM acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at James [?] Land[?]
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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