The State vs. the Dead Body of Lucy Roper

Date: 
June 29, 1899

Deceased

Lucy Roper
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Act of God
COD Method/Implement: 
lightning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do Say: . . . that the aforesaid Lucy Roper came to her death by a Stroke of lightning

Coroner

Coroner: 
L. G. Bell
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
on the pantation of S.W. Miller
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
L19077_0001_927.jpg
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