The State vs. the Dead Body of Elizabeth Belk

Date: 
April 20, 1828

Deceased

Elizabeth Belk
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Fall
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that in traveling to a neighboring house she fell down and being old & infirm was unable to rise & so perished

Coroner

Coroner: 
Robert Mickle
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
near the Door house
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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