The State vs. the Dead Body of Macomb Campbell

Date: 
March 10, 1873

Deceased

Macomb Campbell
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: That the Said Macomb Capbell came to his death by being accidently Burned

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. D. Tiller
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at R. E. Evans'
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

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

Marthey Campbell Sworn I Started to the Spring . . . I heard the largest child allow and told me his brother were a fire and I run back and he met me at the creek the deceased was a fire I pick him up and put him in a tub of water no person let in the house but his little Brother and Deceased.

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