The State vs. the Dead Body of Bird Yarbor

Date: 
December 20, 1903

Deceased

Bird Yarbor
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Heart
COD Inquest Finding: 

the deceased -- Bird Yarbor -- came to his death by heart failure or some natural cause.

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. H. Blackwell
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate

Location

Inquest Location: 
at McBee, SC
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

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

J. F. Sowell Sworn say the diceast have bin staying at my house for a week & he had Bin sick ever since he had bin at my house & was sick when he came theare the diceast com plained of a hurting in his Breast and thought to his back doctor J. L. Ingraham was attending the deceast since he came to my house . . . I found the deceast dead in the privy that deceast had not bin out of my house

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