The State vs. the Dead Body of Bartholomew Darby

Date: 
October 11, 1867

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
wagon
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that his death was caused by his horses running with his waggon & throwing him from his saddle against a stump & the wheel of the waggon running over his head or neck & breaking his neck & deeply cutting him under the right ear

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
near Emanuel Allen's on the road between Willis Layton's & said Allen's

Source

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