The State vs. the Dead Body of Adam Wood

Date: 
December 5, 1880

Deceased

Adam Wood
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that said deceased came to his death . . . by being run over or struck by the train on said road, receiving thereby such wounds as to cause his death

Coroner

Coroner: 
S. B. Ezell
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Cowpens Station on the A&C Air Line R.R.
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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