The State vs. the Dead Body of Mary

Date: 
January 13, 1853

Deceased

Mary
Description: 
female Slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Isaac Bowles[?]
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

The jury find that the decased Mary came to her death by falling into the Said Mountain Creek and drowned

Coroner

Coroner: 
James M. Harrison
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Isaac Bowles[?]
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
L19077_0001_151.jpg
L19077_0001_152.jpg

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