The State vs. the Dead Body of James McCravy

Date: 
January 4, 1851

Deceased

James McCravy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Exposure
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said James McCravy being intoxicated and out in the snow frozed [sic] to death

Coroner

Coroner: 
J.[?] T.[?] Lanford
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Amos Holmes
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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