The State vs. the Dead Body of Unknown

Date: 
October 10, 1869

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say That the deceased came to his death by dispensation of providence, [?] lying on the Rail Road track ... by being run over by a train & [?] & cut to pieces by said train

Coroner

Coroner: 
D. A. Foskett
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Graniteville
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
L19077_0001_454.jpg

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