The State vs. the Dead Body of Thomas Davis

Date: 
March 30, 1884

Deceased

Thomas Davis
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Thomas Davis came to his death by misfortune or accident

Coroner

Coroner: 
T. T. Westmoreland
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at John Davis
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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

T. M. Baswell sworn says deceased had been missing a few hours and I with others were in search of him. I found him near bank of river in a cave. the said cave had closed in on him. from position he was found it seems to me that deceased had dug cave himself. I was first one that found him. T. M. Baswell

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