The State vs. the Dead Body of Hampton Weaver

I saw Hampton lying on his face and knees, with his clothes on fire and burnt off

Date: 
July 17, 1869

Deceased

Hampton Weaver
Description: 
colored
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
shotgun
COD Inquest Finding: 

the said Hampton Weaver came to his death do say . . .by the accidental discharge of a single barreled shot gun held in his own hands inflicting a mortal wound under his right Jaw

Coroner

Coroner: 
O. H. Hart
Coroner Title: 
magistrate and acting coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of and on the farm of James T Outz
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

a common case knife lay by his side. The gun was out of repair. I think he was at work on the lock of the gun with the knife when it wint off. He wanted to buy the gun from me but I would not let him have it. I knew that he did not know anything about a gun.

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