The State vs. the Dead Body of Nelson Pettifoot

Date: 
February 11, 1848

Deceased

Nelson Pettifoot
Description: 
free black
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
wagon
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say the deceased came t his death by the wagon running over him

Coroner

Coroner: 
A. M. Kennedy
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the edge of the town of Camden
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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

D. Minton sworn said about 4 o'clock was informed by a boy there was a man lying in the road and saw a wagon going on. Came immediately down and found him with his face lying in the sand and lifeless, the wagon wheel appearing to have struck the back of his head and run over it, and also over his legs. D. Minton

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