The State vs. the Dead Body of Samuel McCulley

Date: 
December 29, 1839

Deceased

Samuel McCulley
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that sd, Samuel McCulley on the 28th day of December 1839 was found dead in Broadway Creek . . . and had no marks of violence on him and died of the [?] of God partly by intemperance partly by cold and partly by drowning

Coroner

Coroner: 
Alexander Moore
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
in Broadway Creek
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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