The State vs. the Dead Body of Thomas Styson

Date: 
June 22, 1856

Deceased

Thomas Styson
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
hoe
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that he came to his death by a wound inflicted on the Right Side of the head with a hoe in hands of the boy Clem; slave of R M Fuller

Coroner

Coroner: 
Wiley Timmerman
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at R. M. Fullers
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Clem
Perpetrator Description: 
slave
Perpetrator Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Inquest Images: 
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