M. M. Padgett
M. M. Padgett Inquests
Name | Deceased Description | Date | Inquest Location | County | Death Type | Death Method | Inquest Finding |
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Clara Bell | colored child | June 23, 1868 | at Rev. H.T. Baitleys | Edgefield County, SC | Homicide |
upon their oaths do say: . . . the elder Child was conscious before it died and did say that a black man, and others say that she (the child) said that it was a yellow man that set fire to the house which burnt her & the other child to death hence we find that the Children were burnt to death but unknown by whom, and if it shall appear that the deceased were wilfully killed by another |
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George Watkins | October 10, 1866 | at George Watkins | Edgefield County, SC | Homicide |
upon there oaths do say that George Watkins came to his death by a Gun shot wound in the hands of Newton Corley |
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Henry Padget | freedman | November 14, 1866 | at Wm Padgets premises on Clouds Creek | Edgefield County, SC | Homicide |
upon there oaths do say that. . .he came to his death by a Gun shot wound . . . in the hands of Job McGee |
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Lewis | slave | May 21, 1861 | at S. H. Roggers | Edgefield County, SC | Suicide |
upon there oaths do say that Lewis came to his death by his own hands. . .then and there voluntarily and feloniously did hang and him self did kill |
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Milledge Denny | colored child | June 23, 1868 | at Rev. H.T. Baitleys | Edgefield County, SC | Homicide |
upon their oaths do say:. . .the elder Child was conscious before it died and did say that a black man, and others say that she (the child) said that it was a yellow man that set fire to the house which burnt her & the other child to death hence we find that the Children were burnt to death but unknown by whom, and if it shall appear that the deceased were wilfully killed by another |
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Nelson Smith | freedman, boy | October 4, 1866 | at Andrew Warts | Edgefield County, SC | Homicide |
upon there oaths do say that Nelson Smith freedman came to his death from being shot with some kind of fire arms in the hands of two persons from the way he was shot by persons unknown |
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Wesley Weaver[?] | June 15, 1858 | at Mrs Lydia Nevus[?] | Edgefield County, SC | Suicide | shotgun |
upon their oaths do say that Wesley Weaver by the discharge of a double barreled gun, held in his own hands,. . .then and there voluntarily and feloniously himself did Kill |
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Wilson Griffin | freedman | February 13, 1867 | at Luke Rodgers | Edgefield County, SC | Homicide |
upon their oaths do say that the said Wilson Griffin freedman came to his death from a gun or pistole shot wound in the hands of some person or persons to the jurors unknown |