Inquests
Title | Inquest Location | County | Death Type | Date | COD Inquest Finding | COD |
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The State vs. the Dead Body of Unknown |
at the plantation of John Holinshead on Broad River
|
Accident | June 6, 1829 |
upon their oaths do say (viz) from the evidence of Mrs. Hugheys and John beal, with other circumstances that the negro boy belonged to a speculator who had brobibly traded for him in the district of Newberry and carried him into this district some distance when the boy took his master's horse and returned to Hugheys ferry...she [Mrs. Hughey] heard a considerable splash in the watter...John beal made oath that he was walking on the bank of the river near a mile below the said, ferry on the fifth..he states that he seen a negro [?] on a rock he procured a canoe the same evening and had him brought to the bank the negro was dead and from every cricumstances he believed the negro had been drowned and appeared he had been in the river one or two days |
Drowning | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Herman Peters |
on the Camden Road near the house of Hugh Y.[?] Rosborough
|
Accident | November 2, 1836 |
do say upon their oaths that they believe according to all evidence adduced to them, the said Herman Peters came to his death from intoxication and inclemency of the weather, some time of the morning of the 2nd instant, on the Camden Road four miles from Winnsborough |
Exposure | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Eliza |
at the house of Mr. John Cockrell
|
Accident | February 15, 1837 |
do say upon their oaths, that according to the evidence adduced to them they believe, that upon the morning of the 15th instant, the said Eliza came to her death, by a tree falling on her; Breaking her scull, also her thigh and perhaps other injuries we know- nothing of. |
Head Trauma | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Ned |
near the house of Joseph Gladney Little River
|
Accident | February 15, 1831 |
do say upon their oaths that according to the evidence addressed to them they believe that on the 25th December in attempting to cross little river at a Ford [he] was thrown off a mule on which he rode and then and there was drowned, without any Person being accessory to his death but think they have some reason to believe he was in some degree intoxicated which might in some manner procured his being thrown from said mule |
Drowning | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Rachel McBurney |
in the house of Major James Barkley
|
Accident | October 21, 1833 |
do say upon their oaths, that according to the evidence adduced, they believe that on the morning of the 20th this instant, or some time in the night of the 19th, a small house adjoining the dwelling of the said Major James Barkley, occupied by said Rachel McBurney as a Bed Room, caught fire, how, not known, was consumed with the contents, and her, the said Rachel. |
Burns | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of George Craig |
at the house of Mathew Richmond
|
Accident | January 19, 1825 |
do say upon their oaths that, according evidence and their own belief a tree which he assisted to cutdown, by misfortune fell on him and broke his scull on the evening of the 18th. |
Head Trauma | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Littleton Hollis |
at the house of Sanders Gibson
|
Other | December 11, 1831 |
do say upon their oaths, that according to the evidence adduced to them, they have reason to believe; that for some time past the deceased has been in the habit of drinking spiritous liquors to excess on every occasion, or at least every opportunity, and on the 9th instant, had drank very freely, and fell once or twice off his own feet. might have been hurt thereby, but they believe, there was no other causes, unless, An appoplectic fit. or Epilectic, might have been brought on thereby |
Alcoholism | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Unknown |
near the house of James Walling
|
Homicide | September 6, 1827 |
do say upon their oaths that they believe the sd infant came to its death by being struck against a log which lay about four or five steps from the place of its birth on Tuesday morning the 4th instant by Letitia Vaugh, who they believe delivered the child |
Infanticide | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of May |
at the plantation of Doctor William Bratton on Wateree Creek
|
Natural Causes | March 20, 1832 |
do say upon their oaths, that according to the evidence adduced to them, they believe that on the 19th instant in a field where the said May was breaking Cotton Halks, he was taken with an appoplectic fit and expired in an instant |
Brain | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Freeman Holten |
at, or near, Mr. John B. Pickett's rig[?] at Mr. Richard Harrison's Mill
|
Accident | November 5, 1826 |
do say upon their oaths that the said Freeman Holton came to his death on the 4th of November in A Mill house of Mr. Richard B Harrison's came to his death by a Fall from the upper Story in the inside of the House, the floors not being laid |
Fall | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of James Blackie |
in the house of Ezekiel Hoy
|
Natural Causes | August 17, 1836 |
do say upon their oaths that they believe James Blackie died on the 16th of August & and that his death was caused by a 'severe acute disease aggravated & hurried to a fatal termination by previous organic affection of all the viscera of the systems |
Infection | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Rhoda Beam |
at Fishdown[?]
|
Suicide | March 19, 1861 |
upon our oaths do say, that the said Mrs. Bean voluntarily and feloniously knowing[?] did Kil[?] by Jumping out of the flat at [?] fery into [?] and drounding hirself |
Drowning | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Biggers R. Mobley |
at Biggers[?] R. Mobley's
|
Suicide | December 31, 1860 |
upon our oaths do say that the said Biggers R. Mobly [?] [?] said then and there voluntarily and felonously himself did kill by hanging himself with a rope |
Hanging | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Andrew Thompson |
at Andrew Thompson's house
|
Suicide | December 19, 1859 |
upon their oaths do say, that Andrew Thompson here lying dead came to his death then and there, voluntarily and feloneausly, himself did kill, by cutting his throat with a rasor |
Sharp Instrument | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Sam |
at Joseph Hurts'[?]
|
Suicide | September 15, 1861 |
upon our oaths do sa, that the slave boy Sam, in manner and form aforesaid, then and there, voluntarily and felonously himself did kill, by hanging himself with arope around the kneck on Sunday Evening the 15 |
Hanging | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Tucker R. Clarke |
in Winnsboro
|
Unknown | November 23, 1858 |
Tucker R. Clarke came to his death from Causes unknown |
Unknown | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Bacchus |
at the plantation of John Lowery
|
Homicide | September 28, 1840 |
upon their oaths do say..that the believes the said negro Bacchus came to his death on the 26th day of Sept. Instant by Certain Blows inflicted on him by Wm L. Galloway with the but end of a waggon whip and by no other way |
Blunt Instrument | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Hester Mobley |
at David Gladney's
|
Natural Causes | June 27, 1868 |
upon their oaths do say . . . that from the testimony the Said Hester Mobley came to her death by the desease, She was Suffering from, The disease of the Heart. |
Heart | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Center |
at Jos. Willinghams
|
Accident | December 14, 1853 |
upon their oaths do say, all cirumstance of the case show conclusively that Center was accidentaally drowned in Little River last Sunday evening |
Drowning | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Charles |
[near the house of David L Milling]
|
Homicide | August 2, 1846 |
the death of the afforesaid Charles was caused by a stab inflicted by a pocket knife near the joint[?] of the breast bone which wound is horizontal & about 1 1/4 inch in length 2nd That from the testimony produced they are fully satisfied that the wound was caused the death of Charles was inflicted by the hand of a negro boy Ned the property of Andrew [?] |
Sharp Instrument | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Harry |
at McClures Creek on the plantation of Martha A Dickson
|
Suicide | December 3, 1826 |
do say upon their oaths that the said negro man Harry with a knife held in his right hand did strike and give to himself with the knife aforesaid upon his throat aforesaid on mortal wound |
Sharp Instrument | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Elisha Farless[?] |
at Robert Youngers Mill house
|
Natural Causes | September 15, 1847 |
do say upon their oaths that the siad Elisha Farleys[?] died on the 14th[?] instant past at or in the Mill house of Robert Yongers[?] was found dead that he had no markes of violence appearing on his body and died by the visitation of God in a natural way |
Unknown | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Jesse |
at Lyles Ford on the Broad River
|
Accident | May 15, 1850 |
upon their oaths do say that the negro man came to his dead by drowing or accident to the Jurors unknown |
Drowning | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of George Keerison |
at Alston Depot, G & C.[?] R. Road
|
Accident | November 22, 1856 |
upon their oaths do say,- that according to the testimony given, the said George Keerison was crossing Broad River on the G & 6 R.R. Bridge at Alston in a state of intoxication on the 4th instant, and accidentally fell off said Bridge, which was the cause of his death |
Drowning | |
The State vs. the Dead Body of Unknown |
in and Old garden where Mrs Hariett[?] lived
|
Unknown | July 27, 1864 |
The Jury after making an investigation, with out any Evidence come to the conclusion that the said death of said infant was from causes unknown to the Jurors |