The State vs. the Dead Body of Isaac Salter

Date: 
June 7, 1872

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
pistol
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Isaac Salter came to his death, upon their oaths do sayeth by a pistol shot in the hands of Amos Anderson

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the old Colemans Quarter
County: 

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Amos Anderson
Inquest Images: 
Laurens_Cor_D5852_1064.jpg
Laurens_Cor_D5852_1065.jpg
Laurens_Cor_D5852_1066.jpg
Laurens_Cor_D5852_1067.jpg
Laurens_Cor_D5852_1068.jpg
Laurens_Cor_D5852_1069.jpg

Get in touch

  • Department of History
    220 LeConte Hall, Baldwin Street
    University of Georgia
    Athens, GA 30602-1602
  • 706-542-2053
  • admin@ehistory.org

eHistory was founded at the University of Georgia in 2011 by historians Claudio Saunt and Stephen Berry

Learn More about eHistory

Supporters

+ American Council of Learned Societies
+ DigiLab, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia