James Blackwell
James Blackwell Inquests
Name | Deceased Description | Date | Inquest Location | County | Death Type | Death Method | Inquest Finding |
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William | negro man, boy, slave | February 13, 1849 | at R. F. Barretts | Edgefield County, SC | Homicide | knife |
Do say upon their Oaths that one Samuel Butler of the District aforesaid not having God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil . . .with force & arms at his place of residence . . .made an assault, and . . .with a certain Kinf & whip ... did inflict ... several wounds and bruses of which wounds & bruises he lingered and died |
Stephen Stalmaker | August 30, 1850 | at J.M.C. Freeland's | Edgefield County, SC | Homicide | plank |
upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death by blow inflicted on the side of his head with a piece of plank four feet long five & a half inches wide & one inch thick used as the [?] of a door which had fractured the right parietal[?] & Temporal bones by the hands of Thomas Parker |