The State vs. the Dead Body of D. Stepp

he said he could swim well enough to keep from droanding in deep water.

Date: 
June 9, 1883

Deceased

D. Stepp
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that . . .the said D. W. Stepp came to his death by being drowned accidentally in the Mill Pond at Hutchinson's Tan Yard

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. A. Mooney
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Greenville
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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