The State vs. the Dead Body of Ann

Date: 
June 28, 1837

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Child: 
child
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that they do believe agreeable to evidence that the said Ann came to her death by accidentily falling into the Creek and getting drowned and not otherwise.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Andrew Yongue[?]

Source

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