The State vs. the Dead Body of Eddie Summer

Date: 
August 6, 1881

Deceased

Eddie Summer
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths ... do say that the said Eddie Summer came to his death ... from gun shot wounds received in the right side discharged accidentally

Coroner

Coroner: 
S. B. Ezell
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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