The State vs. the Dead Body of Kinley Green

Date: 
February 2, 1878

Deceased

Kinley Green
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Kinley Green came to his death ... from having been run over on the evening previous by a Freight train on the A&C Air ine Railrway near the 2/3 mile post

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. G. Gaffney
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Gaffney City
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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