The State vs. the Dead Body of Sherman Bowden

Date: 
May 7, 1878

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that ... the said Sherman Bowden while bathing in the Lawson's Fork Creek ... accidentally fell into water over his head and was drowned

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Spartanburg

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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