The State vs. the Dead Body of Andrew Boney

Date: 
July 26, 1879

Deceased

Andrew Boney
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Heart
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that from the Certificate of two Physicians who reached him in his dying moment that he come to his death from Heart disease[.]

Coroner

Coroner: 
B. E. Elkin
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice acting as Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Ridgeway
County: 
Fairfield County, SC

Source

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

We as physicians of aforesaid state & county do certify that we were present with Andrew Boney (deceased) at the time of his death and think that the immediate cuase of his very Sudden dissolution was from an attack of heart disease. John D. Palmer M.D. W. R. Sykes MD

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