The State vs. the Dead Body of Allen Bauknight

Date: 
June 11, 1866

Deceased

Allen Bauknight
Description: 
freedman
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that the said Allen Bauknight came to his death by a discharge of a Gun in the hands of Suson Bauknight freeman his wife by the Gun going of axcidentally

Coroner

Coroner: 
James Perry
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at William Bauknights
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

Allen wife says on Sunday Evening and says on oath that she was laying down and Allen reach out for her to give him the Gun to shoot a hawk and as she reach him the gun it went off and he fell

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