Inquests
Title | Inquest Location | County | Death Type | Date | COD Inquest Finding | COD |
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The State vs. the Dead Body of Alex Black |
at Philadelphia in Spartanburg County
|
Natural Causes | October 27, 1884 |
upon their oaths do say that he came to his death from disease of the brain in his field some two hundred yards from his house |
Brain | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of infant |
at Cannon's Old Grave yard
|
Accident | January 28, 1863 |
upon their oaths do say that said deceased child came to its or her death by carelessness or mismanagement or misfortune at the house of Jefferson Saterfield |
Exposure | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Emma Alexander | Natural Causes | July 2, 1885 |
upon their oaths say that from the evidence before them that the said Emma Alexander died from congestion of the lungs |
Lungs | ||
The State vs. the Dead Body of Booker |
at the plantation called Flint Hill[?]
|
Accident | March 30, 1823 |
do say upon their oaths that. . .the sd. negro. . .was axacery [sic] to his own death by drinking to [sic] much spirits and being exposed to the inclemency of the weather |
Exposure | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of William Brice |
at the house of Jesse Wakefield
|
Accident | July 11, 1830 |
do say upon their oaths that in the dusk of the evening of the 10th day of said month as he was returning from muster in the yard or about a distance of 25 steps from the dwelling house of Jesse Wakefield in sd' district by an act of God he was killed by a stroke of Lightning |
Act of God | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of S. B. Layton |
at S. B. Layton's Store near S. S. Johnson's residence
|
Suicide | March 11, 1885 |
upon their oaths do say that the said S. B. Layton came to his death by a gun shot wound ... and that the said S. B. Layton ... voluntarily and feloniously himself did kill against the pease and dignity of the state |
Firearm | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Caleb Woodruff |
at Bethel Meeting House
|
Accident | February 5, 1831 |
do say upon their oaths that. . .he came to his death by a fall from his horse and the abuse of said horse his foot hanging by the stirrup |
Transportation | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Willie Senteel |
at Clifton
|
Accident | August 9, 1885 |
upon their oaths do say that Willie Senteel came to his death by accidental drowning at Clifton |
Drowning | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Laban Johnson |
at Clifton
|
Natural Causes | May 15, 1889 |
do say that the said Laban Johnson came to his death from heart troubles brought on by natural causes |
Heart | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Noah Wesley Dawkins |
at home of John Dawkins
|
Accident | June 18, 1888 |
upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death by accidental drowning while in swimming |
Drowning | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of William Rogers, J. M. Higgins |
at Clifton
|
Accident | March 16, 1889 |
upon their oaths do say that J. M. Miggins and William Rodgers came to their death ... by injuries received in a wreck on the D.R.R. A&C Division at Clifton ... and that said wreck was caused by the second section of Freight train No. 20 running into first section |
Transportation | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of William Rogers, J. M. Higgins |
at Clifton
|
Accident | March 16, 1889 |
upon their oaths do say that J. M. Miggins and William Rodgers came to their death ... by injuries received in a wreck on the D.R.R. A&C Division at Clifton ... and that said wreck was caused by the second section of Freight train No. 20 running into first section |
Transportation | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of infant |
at Spartanburg
|
Homicide | August 23, 1888 |
upon their oaths do say that the said unknown child came to his death by being killed and murdered by some person or persons to the jurors unknown |
Infanticide | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of George F. Farmer |
at Thicketty Station
|
Accident | December 3, 1886 |
upon their oaths do say taht the said George F. Farmer came to his death by jumping from the cars while they were crossing the Trestle over Big Thickety Creek near Thickety Station and by falling on timbers below ... the said fall caused by accident on the part of the deceased being the result of drunkenness |
Transportation | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Charles Moore |
at Charles Moor
|
Accident | November 29, 1889 |
upon there oaths do say that Charles Moore came to his death by being struck by an engine on the Spartanburg Union and Columbia Railroad ... and that the occurrance was purely accidental |
Transportation | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Adolphus Littlejohn |
at Gaffney City
|
Accident | May 31, 1888 |
upon their oaths do say that Adolphus Littlejohn came to his death by being run over by the Ballast Train of the Richmond and Danville Roilroad about the incorporate limits of Gaffney City |
Transportation | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of infant |
at the residence of Miss Mary Bridges
|
Natural Causes | December 24, 1882 | |||
The State vs. the Dead Body of William Belcher |
at or near Duncans
|
Suicide | December 2, 1888 |
uppon the oaths do say we the jurors do say that Mr. Wm. Belcher ... came to his death by taking poison of some kind unknown to the jurors |
Poison | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of infant |
at Spartanburg C.H.
|
Unknown | January 29, 1888 |
upon their oaths do say that there has been no evidence brought out that the said infant was alive at its birth |
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The State vs. the Dead Body of George Wilkins | Accident | January 7, 1886 |
upon their oaths do say taht George Wilkins came to his death by misfortune or accident from a gun shot in the hands of Jack Lewis |
Firearm | ||
The State vs. the Dead Body of James Robertson |
at Calvin Brewton's
|
Natural Causes | September 13, 1885 |
upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid James Robertson came to his death by disease of the heart |
Heart | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Daniel W. Willis |
at the residence of the deceased Daniel Willis
|
Natural Causes | September 27, 1887 |
upon their oaths do say that the [said] Daniel Willis came to his death of heart disease |
Heart | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of John Webster |
at Gaffney City
|
Suicide | November 21, 1885 |
upon their oaths do say by a pistol shot in the alley between L. G. Byars lumber house and Dr. W. A. Forte's stables ... caused by the hands of the deceased John H. Webster |
Firearm | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Betsey Wingo | Natural Causes | June 9, 1886 |
upon their oaths aforesaid do say that the said Betsey Wingo came to her death by the rupture of an aneurism in the right subclavian artery |
Other | ||
The State vs. the Dead Body of Hezehiah Gulledge |
at Clifton
|
Natural Causes | January 14, 1889 |