The State vs. the Dead Body of Oscar Matthews

Date: 
November 23, 1877

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths say that the aforesaid Oscar Mathews came to his death on the 22nd day of November 1877 at the Mill dam by the accidental falling from the pear[?] trial[?] of the grist mill or from drowning after the fall unknown to the jury[.]

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at C.H.[?] Matthews'

Source

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