The State vs. the Dead Body of Nesbitt Rice

Date: 
April 21, 1886

Deceased

Nesbitt Rice
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Nesbitt Rice came to his death by hand [of] god

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. O. Evans

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Poplar Springs
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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