The State vs. the Dead Body of Mitilda Gilbert

Date: 
September 26, 1876

Deceased

Mitilda Gilbert
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death . . . being found lying at length in said spring being there drowned by misfortune or accident

Coroner

Coroner: 
William M. Foster
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Isaac Gilbert's
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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