The State vs. the Dead Body of July

Date: 
September 8, 1856

Deceased

July
Description: 
infant slave
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Mrs. Elender[?] Martin
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say . . .the Decsd came to its Death by misfortune or accident occasioned by the overLaying of its mother

Coroner

Coroner: 
Edwin M. Gregory
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the House of Mrs Elender[?] Martin
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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

witness thinks the Decsd came to its death by the cearlessness of its mother her being verry sleepy

witness never herd the mother make any threat concerning her child

the mother of Decd was not in the Least intoxicated before nor after the Death of the child

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