The State vs. the Dead Body of John Radford

Date: 
April 12, 1860

Deceased

John Radford
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
wagon
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say and upon our oaths do find and declare that the said dead boy being that of John Radford. . .did come to his death by accident or mischance in that it was by the accidental runing the waggon of J L Miller over the body of chest of said Radford

Coroner

Coroner: 
Benjamin Beard
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of John Radford
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

the mules were unruly and refused to pull and several persons were aiding to shove wagon on then Mr Radford was on one hind wheel and in some way slipt and fell just before the wheel at the same moment the mules made a girk and pooled the wheel over his body

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