Drowning

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said John. L. Thornton Smith came to his death by accidental drownign in a water-course known as Lawson's Fork 1 1/2 miles distant from Spartanburg

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Angus Jefferson Smith came to his death by accidental drowning in a water course known as Lawson's Fork 1 /12 miles distant from Spartangburg C.H.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Toney Clawson came to his death by accidental drowning while attempting to cross a small streamunusually swollen from heavy rains

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
aged five years
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid John T. Wood. . .was drowned in a hole of water near Dr. Kilgore's

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by accidental drowning in Tyger River just below A. Floyd's mill dam

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

find that the deceased came to his death by voluntary drowning

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
child of two or three yeards
Parent(s): 
J.B. Edwards
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

find J.R. Edwards came to his death by fall or drowning

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon there [sic] oaths that there was a bruse [sic] on his left breast near his hart [sic] and also on the left arm oposit [sic] the bruse [sic] on his breast and also that he came to his death by the bruse [sic] or drowned axidentally [sic]

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
three years old
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

on oath that we believe that said child comes to his death by accident of falling or slipping in [the Maple Swamp] creek and being drowned near Wm. Smith's mill

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that he was drowned by accidentally falling into the waters of Wilson's Creek while in the act of fishing

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