The State vs. the Dead Body of Patrick Burns[?]

Date: 
November 4, 1858

Deceased

Patrick Burns[?]
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

said Burns came to his death by visitation of God . . . that the immediate cause leading to sudden death, was the bursting of a blood vessel in or about the heart or lungs

Coroner

Coroner: 
Benjamin Baird
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of Richard Campbell
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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