The State vs. the Dead Body of Joshua Clark

Date: 
January 26, 1885

Deceased

Joshua Clark
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Heart
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that said deceased came to his death by an organic disease of the Heart

Coroner

Coroner: 
James L. Scruggs
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
on a rode leading from B. B. Martin's to John Champions
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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