The State vs. the Dead Body of Butler Farmer

Date: 
December 20, 1890

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say that said Butler Farmer came to his death "from a gun shot wound from the hands of James Gowan or Henry Jones, supposed to be an accident."

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
on M B Pools Plantation
County: 

Source

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