The State vs. the Dead Body of Mid[?] Griffin

Date: 
February 2, 1895

Deceased

Mid[?] Griffin
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Heart
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the Aforesaid Mid Griffin came to his death by Heart failure

Coroner

Coroner: 
L. G. Bell
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the Govelace[?] Place
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

Mid Griggen has been corn[?] drinking since Crhismas with his side troublled with shortness of breath ... He had[?] never been well since a spell of fevor ... smoked his pipe ... He grunted when he dropped

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