The State vs. the Dead Body of Edward Simpson

Date: 
January 9, 1836

Deceased

Edward Simpson
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
horse
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say uppon [sic] there [sic] oaths that he was riding a horse at full speed. . .on the wagon road [and[ was thrown against a tree which gave him one mortal wound from his hip on the right side extruding to his shoulder on the same right side

Coroner

Coroner: 
Joel Dean
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location: 
at William Simpson's
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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