The State vs. the Dead Body of John Rufus Russell

Date: 
October 10, 1884

Deceased

John Rufus Russell
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that the said John Rufus Russell come to his death by suffocation Caused by accidentally falling with head downward into a hole in a pile of seed Cotton

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. M. Corley
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at John L Russell House
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

the hold in which it is said the Body was found it that is the hold was about as deep as my arm is long

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