The State vs. the Dead Body of James Harmon

Date: 
March 4, 1841

Deceased

James Harmon
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that they cannot find no marks of Violence upon him and he died by the visitation of god in a natural way and not otherwise

Coroner

Coroner: 
Reuben Coleman
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
near[?] Nichara[?] Gordon's
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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