The State vs. the Dead Body of Elisha Himbry

Date: 
October 11, 1832

Deceased

Elisha Himbry
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that he was found on the tenth day of the present month about one mile from this place lying in the woods on his farm and they do believe he came to his death by the act of God

Coroner

Coroner: 
Thomas Grogan
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Peace

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of William Himbry
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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