The State vs. the Dead Body of Chanya

Date: 
December 31, 1849

Deceased

Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by infirmity and old age

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at A.G.W. Gordon's

Source

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