The State vs. the Dead Body of Manerva Sanders

Date: 
March 22, 1890

Deceased

Manerva Sanders
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Act of God
COD Method/Implement: 
tornado
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that Manerva Sanders came to her death. . .by a Storm or Cyclone. . . blowing down a house in which she Was in and the falling timbers Kill her

Coroner

Coroner: 
James D. Wills
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Webb S.C
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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