The State vs. the Dead Body of Robert Blair

Date: 
March 25, 1828

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths. . . that the s'd Robert Blair came to his death by drownding himelf in the Mill pond of James Cunningham's

Coroner

Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the mill of James Cunningham ... on a branch of Shingeton's[?] Creek
County: 

Source

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