The State vs. the Dead Body of Glasco Ferly

Date (Partial/Ambiguous): 
1895--

Deceased

Glasco Ferly
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say: That the said colored Ferly came to his death by a gunshot wound accidentily inflicted upon himself

Coroner

Coroner: 
A. W. Matheson
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Glasco Ferly
County: 
Fairfield County, SC

Source

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

J.J. Sanders duly sworn testifies as follows On the 16 1895 - Henry Wilson came to my house & told me the decd Galsco Ferly had shot himself accidently on the Red Hill swamps. I went to down where he was dead & found him lying dead in col creek with his head lying down...

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