The State vs. the Dead Body of Lewis Jackson

Date: 
July 23, 1889

Deceased

Lewis Jackson
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Injuries
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that Lewis Jackson came ot his death by being crushed in the machinery of the Brick mill of the Spartanburg Factory by carelessness of the Deceased and disobeying the orders of the foreman

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. M. James
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Squire Jackson's
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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