The State vs. the Dead Body of Tilman Attaway

Date: 
April 14, 1849

Deceased

Tilman Attaway
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

Upon their oaths do say, that the said Tillman Attaway. . .was shot with a load of buck shot discharged from a gun, or pistol, and ... that he the said Samuel Webb Shot the said Tilman Attaway, with a doble barrel Shot gun accidently through a mistake for a Turkey

Coroner

Coroner: 
Hardy White
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the corner of the Oharer[?] old field
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Samuel Webb
Inquest Images: 
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