The State vs. the Dead Body of Thomas Rosseter[?]

saw him rise and sink two or three times, and finally saw him sink and rise no more

Date: 
August 30, 1852

Deceased

Thomas Rosseter[?]
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

Upon their Oaths do say, that he, said Thos Rosseter came to his death by drowning . . .in the street in the town of Hamburg, during the high water Backed[?] out from the Savannah River

Coroner

Coroner: 
Robert Anderson
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Hamburg SC
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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L19077_0001_137.jpg

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