The State vs. the Dead Body of Wade Medlock

Date: 
July 12, 1894

Deceased

Wade Medlock
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: that we the jurors, find that Wade Medlock, aforesaid, came to his death from the effects of Typhoid fevor

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. Pope Roton
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Benjamin Boatwrights Plantation
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

him and _______ had a difficulty and he was struck a very sever blow over the head with a rail ... he has never seen a well day since his got hurt ... I Thought that the blow that he received on his head was the cause of his sickness

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