Inquests
Title | Inquest Location | County | Death Type | Date | COD Inquest Finding | COD |
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The State vs. the Dead Body of Columbus Dempsey |
at the parish
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Unknown | August 2, 1858 |
upon their oaths do say that the said Columbus Dempsey came to his [death] by cause unknown but suppose from an attack of fits to which he was almost daily subject |
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The State vs. the Dead Body of Wesley McCombs |
at Martin M. Comb's
|
Suicide | July 11, 1858 |
upon their oaths do say from the evidences & appearances that they think he must have killedhimself by shooting himself with a rifle gun in the forehead near his father's house about sunrise |
Firearm | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Rolen Hutcheson |
at the dwelling house of William Davis
|
Homicide | January 3, 1803 |
upon their oaths. . .say that the aforesaid Wm. Davis . . .did with a large wooden shovel strike the sd. Rolen Hutcheson on the head which did brake the skull |
Blunt Instrument | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Lewis |
at or near the residence of [?] Gossett
|
Homicide | March 27, 1865 |
that he came to his from a gun shot wound through the neck passing out at his jaw and the said show was from a gun in the hands of some person unknown |
Firearm | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Burrel Evins |
at the dwelling house of Daniel Evins
|
Unknown | November 23, 1814 | |||
The State vs. the Dead Body of Dorcas Henderson |
at Jackson Henderson's
|
Homicide | November 11, 1855 |
upon their oaths do say that from the best information that they could gather that they think the child. . .Dorcas Henderson came to its death on account of having had an excessive portion of spiritous liquor given to it by a free boy of color named Tobe |
Other | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of infant |
at Asail Littlefield's
|
Unknown | November 13, 1857 |
upon their oaths do say that from an examination of the dead body of the child and from the testimony produced and examined before us we have no cause to believe that any violence was used upon the body of the child to cause its death but that it came to its death from some cause or causes unknown |
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The State vs. the Dead Body of Benjamin Farmer |
at the dwelling house of Benjamin Farmer
|
Homicide | April 9, 1804 |
do say upon their oaths [that] a certain Denis Crain with volence and force of arms ... did attack, wound & kill ... Benj'n Farmer |
Other | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of infant |
at the plantation of James Leatherwood
|
Homicide | January 8, 1815 | Infanticide | ||
The State vs. the Dead Body of James M. Rhodes |
at the residence of James M. Rhodes
|
Homicide | August 27, 1862 |
upon their oaths do say that. . .J. William M. Brown ... then and there [did] inflict three severe blows upon the head of deceased fracturing his skull in two places |
Blunt Instrument | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Mary George |
at the late residence of Mary George
|
Unknown | November 1, 1857 |
upon their oaths do say that the dec'd came to her death through the dispensation of Providence |
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The State vs. the Dead Body of negro |
at or near Pacolet Springs
|
Homicide | February 27, 1868 |
upon their oaths do say ... that Catherine, a black woman living at Col. R.C. Poole's at Pacolet Spring, called by some Berry, did have and was delivered of said child and that she throwed [sic] it in the river ... feloniously drownding said child against the peace and dignity of the same state aforesaid |
Infanticide | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Judy Cook |
at or near the residence of Mary Ann Cook
|
Suicide | August 9, 1861 |
upon their oaths do say that the said Miss Judy Cook came to her death by hanging herself with a hank of yarn tied around the neck |
Hanging | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Holman Smith |
at the late residence of Holman Smith
|
Homicide | May 28, 1855 |
upon their oaths do say [deceased] was wilfully, maliciously, & feloniously murdered at his own residence. . .by Phillis and John, slaves of the deceased, by beating him with an Axe and a stick. . .and that Charley, a slave of dec's'd, was accessory to the murder being present and making no effort to prevent the murder |
Sharp Instrument | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Justin Turner | Accident | April 9, 1868 |
upon their oaths do say that the said Jusin Turner. . .came to his death by mischance being exposed during a cold night without doors and from evidence quite intoxicated |
Exposure | ||
The State vs. the Dead Body of black man |
at Batesville
|
Unknown | March 13, 1867 |
upon their oaths do say that they found said dead body lying dead near Batesville near the side of the big road within a few yards of the Rail Road supposed to have been dead saveral days [and that] the said dead body came to his death. . .by misfortune or accident or natural death |
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The State vs. the Dead Body of Rowland Cash |
at the residence of Ephraim Jackson
|
Accident | March 11, 1853 |
do say upon their oaths [deceased] came to his death by misfortune or accident |
Other | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Caroline Rhodes |
at Burnt Factory
|
Accident | April 17, 1865 |
upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by accidental drowning in Tyger River just below A. Floyd's mill dam |
Drowning | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Bob |
near David Holcomb's
|
Unknown | October 10, 1865 | |||
The State vs. the Dead Body of infant |
near Hobbysville
|
Homicide | April 6, 1865 |
upon their oaths do say that after a most careful investigation of the whole matter ... that the said child, we are satisfied, came to its death by having the posterior part of its head crushed, wilfully and violently, by the hands of Martha Robinson, the mother of said child, or Elizabeth Robinson, the grandmother of said child, later in the evening of Tuesday the 4th day of April |
Infanticide | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Asa Lipscomb |
at Mrs. Jinetta Shippy's
|
Accident | December 24, 1866 |
upon their oaths do say that the said Asa Lipscomb was shot with a paper wad by Sam'l Shippy, Norris Shippy, or Frank Shippy ... by accident |
Firearm | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Aaron Hughes |
at the residence of Aaron Hughes
|
Homicide | October 15, 1865 |
upon their oaths do say that said Aaron Hughes ... was feloniously killed and murdered by being shot in the mouth with a small ball and being struck a severe blow across the nose and ... then dragged across the road into the woods. . .by some person or persons to the jurors unknown |
Firearm | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of William Mahan | Suicide | November 20, 1810 |
upon the oaths . . .do say that the Sd Wm Mahan for want of the Grace of God & the instagation of the Divel Came to his Death by forcing a small hemp rope Round his neck to a Beam of the house in his own BeadRoom where with he hangd himd Self Dead |
Hanging | ||
The State vs. the Dead Body of Thomas Henry |
at the Dweling Hous of Samuel
|
Accident | October 20, 1817 |
do Say on their oaths tha Said Thomas Came to his Death By a [?] fall that Nathan[?] Howard [?] him By throwing him [?] his hous[?] in a [????] |
Fall | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Mary Tottey | Accident | January 3, 1814 |
do upon their oaths say that the said Mary Came to her Death By the act of God By Droning |
Drowning |