The State vs. the Dead Body of Absalom McAbee

Date: 
January 6, 1883

Deceased

Absalom McAbee
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
80 years or more
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say he came to his death by mischange by being partially paralised and falling into water and strangled or drowned being a man of 80 years or more and very feeble

Coroner

Coroner: 
B. F. Bonner
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Almarine Willis
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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