The State vs. the Dead Body of Lewis Glanton

Date: 
September 8, 1846

Deceased

Lewis Glanton
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
horse
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Lewis Glanton came to his death by being thrown from his horse against a pine tree in a small[?] near Scotts road

Coroner

Coroner: 
A. B. Addison
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
near the church of Antioch
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

Decd had a bottle of spirits

decd was intoxicated. decd Drank before he left the village of Edgefield & took some on the road

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