The State vs. the Dead Body of Andrew Hunter

Date: 
August 26, 1827

Deceased

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

do say upon their oaths that he was going from mill and his cart wheel struck on a shim and overset and caught him under the cart. . . on his right shoulder and across his neck and the fore gate across his right arm about the elbow

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Peace

Location

County: 

Source

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