The State vs. the Dead Body of Bill

Date: 
September 30, 1860

Deceased

Bill
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Age Descriptor: 
65
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
P. C. Lester
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that he came to his death by some means to the jurors unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
Henry M. Smith
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

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

immediately after speaking to him he fell and seemed to struggle buy never spoke. Witness say he ate a harty[?] breakfast and did not complain of being [?] but cough a good [?] the night before

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