The State vs. the Dead Body of Berry

his head was lying on the rail of the Road very much mashed and his limbs and bones severed

Date: 
October 8, 1859

Deceased

Berry
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Lawrence Linhardt
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
cart
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths say, that the boy Berry a slave . . . came to his death from injuries received from the cart[?] of the down train . . . the cart[?] in their opinion having passed over his body

Coroner

Coroner: 
T. Q. Donaldson
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
near the Residence of Richard Hay on the Greenville & Columbia Railroad
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

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