The State vs. the Dead Body of Hiram Linder

Date: 
March 12, 1840

Deceased

Hiram Linder
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Other
COD: 
Alcoholism
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say uppon [sic] there [sic] oaths that he had no marks of violence uppon [sic] him & died by intemperance or the visition of God in a natural way and not otherwise

Coroner

Coroner: 
Joel Dean
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location: 
on the premises of Isaac Young's
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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