The State vs. the Dead Body of Evans Campbell

Date: 
March 14, 1892

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Parent(s): 
Melia Showers
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Evans Campbell came to his death by Accident or Misfortune, By the burning of the house he was in

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Rhett Copelands
County: 

Source

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