The State vs. the Dead Body of West Myers

Date: 
August 8, 1866

Deceased

West Myers
Description: 
boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their aoths do say that sd West Myers was accidentally drowned by Cicero Caveton[?]

Coroner

Coroner: 
William E. Earle
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
on Washington [?]
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Cicero Caveton[?]
Perpetrator Description: 
col'd
Inquest Images: 
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