The State vs. the Dead Body of William Rose

Date: 
July 11, 1877

Deceased

William Rose
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid Wm. Rose came to his death by the accidental falling of[f] the side of a rail road cut three miles east of Welford, S.C. . . .while loading the gravel train with ballast

Coroner

Coroner: 
S. B. Ezell
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Welford in Spartanburg
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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