The State vs. the Dead Body of Aggy Latily[?]

Date: 
June 21, 1848

Deceased

Description: 
negro woman slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

opon their oaths do say, . . .that the said negro woman aggy, came to her death by excessive drafts of cold water that produced cramp in her stomach which was the cause of her death

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of N L Griffin

Source

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