The State vs. the Dead Body of Wade Barronton

Date: 
October 8, 1860

Deceased

Wade Barronton
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Heart
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that the said Wade Barronton came to his death. . .by the Visitation of God

Coroner

Coroner: 
James Murrell
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Wade Barrontons Residence
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

Eat breakfast as harty as for common and walked out and returned back in the house in a short time and when I walked in he was siting on the side of the bed complaining with a misery in his breast said he never had such curious feeling before ... ten of fifteen minutes ... when I come back in the house to him he was lying across the bed dead

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