The State vs. the Dead Body of George Watts

Date: 
December 2, 1811

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
ferry
COD Inquest Finding: 

[do say] the said George Watts came to his death . . .by falling out of the flat of Camden Ferry. . . on the evening of Friday, the twenty-second day of November last past while intoxicated

Coroner

Coroner: 

Location

County: 

Source

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