The State vs. the Dead Body of Betsey Wingo

Date: 
June 9, 1886

Deceased

Betsey Wingo
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths aforesaid do say that the said Betsey Wingo came to her death by the rupture of an aneurism in the right subclavian artery

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. O. Evins
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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