The State vs. the Dead Body of Edmond Price

Date: 
April 30, 1892

Deceased

Edmond Price
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do Say that he Came to his death from Natural Cause

Coroner

Coroner: 
B. P. Covar
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Kennys Graveyard
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

Uncle Edmond ... Says to my wife that Mattie had tried to push him out of the Piazza and he caught hold of the post and hurt his side and it had hurt him ever Since he did not tell me anything only told my wife

I found him Suffering from dropsical Effusion and urenic[?] poison & death was caused from Natural Consequenses

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