The State vs. the Dead Body of Charlotte

Date: 
June 25, 1825

Deceased

Charlotte
Description: 
negro woman slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Samuel I . Hary
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
shotgun
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that. . .the decd came to her death by the forms[?] of a shot gun loaded with powder and shot. The [?] passing through the right hand and lodging in the right breast a little above the nipple. . . we believe the deceased was handling and [?] the said shot gun

Coroner

Coroner: 
Samuel Jefferies
Coroner Title: 
one of the Justices assigned to keep the peace

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Samuel I. Hary[?]
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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