The State vs. the Dead Body of N. C. Smith

Date: 
July 19, 1871

Deceased

N. C. Smith
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Act of God
COD Method/Implement: 
tree fall
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: That N.C. Smith came to his death by a tree falling on him causing instant-death this happening on the plantation of N.S. Smith, on the 18th day of July 1871

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. J. Hanna
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at N.S. Smith's residence
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

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

M. A. Smith Sworn Says -- Yesterday evening the deceased and myself were at work in the field and it commenced raining and we got under a shelter built on the fence, and a tree blew down length ways with the fence and Killed the deceased. . .

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