The State vs. the Dead Body of John Rea

Date: 
November 21, 1808

Deceased

John Rea
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Other
COD: 
Alcoholism
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oathes that the aforesaid John Rea did come to his death By Intoxication; or the visitation of God on the morning the twenty first day of November...

Coroner

Coroner: 
Robert Long
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Peace

Location

Inquest Location: 
at John Lukes
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
Laurens_Cor_D5852_0049.jpg
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Laurens_Cor_D5852_0051.jpg

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