The State vs. the Dead Body of Elijah M. Cooper

Date: 
August 25, 1877

Deceased

Elijah M. Cooper
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Heart
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said E.M. Cooper came to his death. . .while engaged at work on his fieds near his residence from some cause which the jury believes to have been disease of the heart

Coroner

Coroner: 
S. B. Ezell
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of Elijah M. Cooper
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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