The State vs. the Dead Body of Pressly Foster

Date: 
August 1, 1882

Deceased

Pressly Foster
Description: 
boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
15 yrs
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that . . .came to his death by falling in a branch in an epileptic fit & causing strangulation

Coroner

Coroner: 
Alexander McBee
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Mr. Wm G[?]
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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