The State vs. the Dead Body of M. E. Mason

Date: 
June 16, 1880

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death at Cowpens on the A&C Air Line ... from the effects of being caught between the train on said road and the wood track, in which condition he was crushed and from which he almost instantly died

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Cowpens

Source

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