The State vs. the Dead Body of Ryefield

Date: 
October 24, 1846

Deceased

Ryefield
Description: 
boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
eleven
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say That they suppose the body before them to be that of the younger Ryefield drowned at Smiths Ford some days back, and that the deceased came to his death by accidental drowning

Coroner

Coroner: 
James H. Alexander
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
near the Island Ford on Broad River
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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