The State vs. the Dead Body of Uriah Koon

Date: 
October 16, 1847

Deceased

Uriah Koon
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
wagon
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death by a wagon wheel runing over the breast of decd breaking the 6th-7th & 8th ribs of the left side and the probible rupture of some important blood vessels-on the Columbia Road

Coroner

Coroner: 
A. B. Addison
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Col John Hunt
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

a wagon drawn by two oxen & one horse all were riding on the wagon deponent thinks the oxen ran on the mare and hooked her and they all ran off with the wagon deponent and two others Jumped out behind and decd Jumped out on the side between the wheels

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