The State vs. the Dead Body of Auguiste Campbell

Date: 
October 30, 1868

Deceased

Auguiste Campbell
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths aforesaid do say that the Decd. Auguiste Campbell came to his death, from the continual use of peach brandy, he the decd. Being advanced in years to old age & feeble constitution & that the use of sd. Intoxicating brandy, drank from Monday morning the 26th Inst. to the time of his death was the cause of sd. death.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Jno. Watts
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Auguiste Campbell's
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

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

Mrs Lynda Campbell (wife) of the Decd. Deposith [sic] on oath, that the decd. Has not been free from intoxicating brandy since Monday morning last - the decd. Was found dead early in the monring Friday 30th Oct. 1868.

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