The State vs. the Dead Body of David Adkinson

Date: 
June 9, 1894

Deceased

David Adkinson
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that he (David Adkinson) Died from the Effects of a severe blow upon the right side of the head, being accidentally struck by the passing 10 oclock train on the G.C. &N. R.R. At the place known as the Harris place 3 1/2 miles N.E. of Clinton.

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. P. Sloan
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
on the Harris plantation near Clinton
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

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

Fannie Workman, sworn, says At 10 AM, I heard children hollering, Ella Adkinson, the mother of the decsd., was at my house she asked me to go and see what the cause. I went to the RR and found the decsd. Lying with his feet between ties and his head off from the track... Decesd. is six years old, he lived about 1/2 hour.

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