The State vs. the Dead Body of Spencer

Date: 
May 9, 1858

Deceased

Spencer
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Samuel Young
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Spencer, in manner & form aforesaid, then & there, voluntarily & felloniously himself did kill by hanging

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. S. Neel
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate

Location

Inquest Location: 
in the woods on Mr R S Hendersons plantation
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

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