The State vs. the Dead Body of Rosa Blasingame

a stroke of lightening struck the Chimney of the house and passed through the loft and struck Rosa Blasingame killing her instantly

Date: 
June 30, 1882

Deceased

Rosa Blasingame
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Act of God
COD Method/Implement: 
lightning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by a stroke of lightening it being an act of Providence

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. L. Woodside
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the farm of A. C. McGee
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

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