The State vs. the Dead Body of Freedwoman

Date: 
October 23, 1867

Deceased

Freedwoman
Description: 
Freedwoman
Notes: 
infant
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Clary Williams
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Infanticide
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said infant came to its death by strangulation by the hands of its mother Clary Williams, a freed woman in the town of Anderson . . .immediately after its birth

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Wilson
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Anderson Court House
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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