The State vs. the Dead Body of Edward Lawrence

Date: 
March 29, 1856

Deceased

Edward Lawrence
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
wagon
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that he came to his death by accidentally falling from a wagon heavily loaded with stone, and one of the wheels running over him inflicted severe injuries, which caused his death in a few minutes

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. E. Bellote
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Pendleton village
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

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