The State vs. the Dead Body of Ben Harris

Date: 
July 8, 1910

Deceased

Ben Harris
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: that he came to his death form natural causes

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. T. Atkinson
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at McBee
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

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

Dr. J. D. Ingram Sworn Says In my Opinion after examining Ben Harris Deseased Causr to His Death was from Heart Failure . . .
Dinah Harris Sworn Says never Heard deceased compline any he plowed all day came home . . . & went to bed he wake me struggling in the night witness got up bather his dace In Cold water & Camphor called him & he didn't answer me nobody was here last night axcept the family. Deceased never went off anywhere last night.

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