The State vs. the Dead Body of Lewis

Date: 
May 21, 1861

Deceased

Lewis
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
S. H. Rodgers
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that Lewis came to his death by his own hands. . .then and there voluntarily and feloniously did hang and him self did kill

Coroner

Coroner: 
M. M. Padgett
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at S. H. Roggers
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

Lewis told him that he and Mr W. Kemp had had a difficulty an that Mr Kemp had cut him with a knife deponent sayeth that he examined Lewis found a slight scratch on his left side also one one on his arm

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