The State vs. the Dead Body of Benjamin Cockroft

Date:

March 18, 1847

Benjamin Cockroft

Sex:

Male

Race:

White

COD Category:

Accident

COD:

COD Inquest Finding:

upon their oats do say that the said Benjamin Cockroft came to his death from the effects of being dissipation and lying on the cold ground

Coroner:

Coroner Title:

coroner

Inquest Location:

in the woods near the house of Beryman[?] Bledsoe

County:

South Carolina Department of Archives & History

Columbia, SC

Inquest Images:

Transcription:

decd had been drinking the most of the day by the house of witness in the evening about half hour by [?] with a Jug of Whiskey

he does not thing decd has been sober long at a time for the last Two of three months

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