The State vs. the Dead Body of Elsie Williams

Date: 
June 28, 1886

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say: That the said Elsie Williams did on this place on the 29th day of June 1886-accidentally receive in her abdomen a pistol shot which caused her death on the 1st day of July 1886

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Cheraw

Source

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