The State vs. the Dead Body of Caroline Batson

Date: 
November 21, 1866

Deceased

Caroline Batson
Description: 
freed woman
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
Owner: 
Absolum Batson
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by exposing herself while sick with fever

Coroner

Coroner: 
Henry M. Smith
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Reedy River Church
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

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