The State vs. the Dead Body of Edward Whitt

Date: 
March 1, 1846

Deceased

Edward Whitt
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
horse
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say from the evidence and circumstances that they believe he came to his death by an accidental fall from his horse which dislocated his neck joint and they suppose he was intoxicated.

Coroner

Coroner: 
William Holland
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
near John Baurman's
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

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