The State vs. the Dead Body of Joshua Miller

Date: 
December 22, 1851

Deceased

Joshua Miller
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
shotgun
COD Inquest Finding: 

Upon their Oaths do say, that he came to his death . . .by a discharge of a Shot Gun loaded with powder and lead, carried by himself and that the said Joshua Miller . . .voluntarily and feloniously himself did Kill

Coroner

Coroner: 
James Perry
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Joshua Millers
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

his father got up out of bed and Smoked his pipe and asked me for a drink of tea and then he went into the room and I heard the gun fire and I went into the Room and my father was lyind dead on the floor.

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