The State vs. the Dead Body of John Pitts

Date: 
June 11, 1842

Deceased

John Pitts
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
shotgun
COD Inquest Finding: 

by their oaths do say that the said John Pitts was willfully and feloniously shot by Elias Ford with a long shotgun loaded with powder & large shot and ball somewhere near the residence of Elias Ford

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Elias Ford's
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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