The State vs. the Dead Body of Leander Pack

Date: 
August 14, 1883

Deceased

Leander Pack
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Injuries
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Leander Pack came to his death ... by a blow of a fallen tree of which the decased were cutting

Coroner

Coroner: 
Elijah Dill
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of Elias Atkins
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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