The State vs. the Dead Body of George Delaughter

out on one of the cars on Top and was attempting to step from one to care to another and fell on the track between the cars while runing [sic] and was run over by the cars

Date: 
April 30, 1861

Deceased

George Delaughter
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say the said George Delaughter came to his death from falling of the Rail Road cars

Coroner

Coroner: 
R. L. Gentry
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the Hamburg Passenger Depot
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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