The State vs. the Dead Body of Lee Blakney

Date: 
February 25, 1944

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
plank
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Lee Blakney received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by Planer Hill in the hands of Self. . . Lee Blakney came to his death, by accident, while operating a planer.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Pageland

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
L13063_0482_01.jpg
L13063_0482_02.jpg
L13063_0482_03.jpg
L13063_0482_04.jpg
L13063_0482_05.jpg
L13063_0482_06.jpg
L13063_0482_07.jpg
L13063_0482_08.jpg
L13063_0482_09.jpg
L13063_0482_10.jpg
L13063_0482_11.jpg
L13063_0482_12.jpg
L13063_0482_13.jpg

Get in touch

  • Department of History
    220 LeConte Hall, Baldwin Street
    University of Georgia
    Athens, GA 30602-1602
  • 706-542-2053
  • admin@ehistory.org

eHistory was founded at the University of Georgia in 2011 by historians Claudio Saunt and Stephen Berry

Learn More about eHistory

Supporters

+ American Council of Learned Societies
+ DigiLab, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia