The State vs. the Dead Body of Henry Cobb

Date: 
December 16, 1868

Deceased

Henry Cobb
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Other
COD: 
Alcoholism
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that he came to his death by intoxication with spiritous liquours.

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Wilson
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Warnock's Crossing on the Anderson Branch of the Greenville & Columbia Rail Road
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

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