The State vs. the Dead Body of Henry Langley

Date: 
April 2, 1848

Deceased

Henry Langley
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
wagon
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their Oaths, that the said Henry Langley came to his death by a fall from his wagon. . .we believe by accident

Coroner

Coroner: 
S. Broadwater
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Wm Vances
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

the horses started to run away whilst witness was watering of them. And that the decd was in the wagon a sleep, On waking he attempted to jump out of the hind[?] part of the wage, the second attempt he made , he put his foot on the trough which gave way & he fell one his back in the road

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