The State vs. the Dead Body of Samuel Kelso

Date: 
December 21, 1817

Deceased

Samuel Kelso
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Brain
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that. . .he came to his death by an act of God being subject to something like a apoplexy for some time previous to his death

Coroner

Coroner: 
Samuel Archibald
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of Sam'l Kelso
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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