The State vs. the Dead Body of Amelia A. Alexander

Date: 
May 5, 1860
Case File: 
The Boykin Mill Pond Incident

Deceased

Amelia A. Alexander
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Amelia A. Alexander came to her death by accidental drowning in the millpond of A.H. Boykin. . .by sinking of a Flat caused by the weight of between fifty-three & fifty-six persons

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. L. DePass
Coroner Title: 
magistrate, acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Boykin's Mill
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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