The State vs. the Dead Body of John Whitlock

Date: 
September 8, 1869

Deceased

John Whitlock
Description: 
boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death by an act of Providence being subject to fits

Coroner

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

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Grainteville
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

always knew the deceased to be a perfect idiot

the deceased John Whitlock had a fit know it was a fit saw him fits great many times

when the fits were upon him he would lie down and hollow they tied him with the rope for the purposes of keeping him from straying off where the fits were on him

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