The State vs. the Dead Body of Balus Harrison

Date: 
November 14, 1893

Deceased

Balus Harrison
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
cart
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Balus Harris aforesaid came to his death by an accident by being kicked by a horse from a cart in which he was sitting there by breaking his neck

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. Pope Roton
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Edgefield CH
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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