The State vs. the Dead Body of Nancy Smith

Date: 
February 10, 1847

Deceased

Nancy Smith
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Act of God
COD Method/Implement: 
lightning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that they believe that the sd. Nancy Smith. . .died by a visitation of God by a stroke of lightning

Coroner

Coroner: 
Harvey Wofford
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the resident of Elijah Smith
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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