The State vs. the Dead Body of William Boken

Date: 
April 17, 1841

Deceased

William Boken
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
horse
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the dec'd came to his death by misfortune & axidente [sic] by a team of horses that he was driving taking frite [sic] & . . .flung him off & Braking [sic] his head over & about his Right eye

Coroner

Coroner: 
E. G. Foster
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Flint Mill
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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