The State vs. the Dead Body of white man

found a white man with one arm off dec'd on the Siken[?] road

Date: 
October 21, 1849

Deceased

white man
Description: 
white man
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say the aforesaid Stranger came to his death from the act of God

Coroner

Coroner: 
A. B. Addison
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
in the woods near Holsonbakers[?] old fields
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
L19077_0001_070.jpg
L19077_0001_071.jpg

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