John J. Jones
John J. Jones Inquests
| Name | Deceased Description | Date | Inquest Location | County | Death Type | Death Method | Inquest Finding |
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| Carey | slave | February 1, 1831 | at the house of John Williams | Kershaw County, SC | Accident |
do say upon their oaths We the Jurors . . .believe he got his Death accidentally by fire to the best of our knowledges and the evidence given by Mary Carraway and Nathan Waters before us proves nothing more |
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| Daniel Gallis | January 31, 1819 | at house of Daniel Gillis | Kershaw County, SC | Accident |
do say upon their oaths that . . . by cutting down a oak he was accidentally struck by a limb of the said tree and instantly killed |
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| infant | May 26, 1829 | Kershaw County, SC | Unknown |
do say upon their oaths . . .that upon the examination of the dead body [it] was found in such decayed state that nothing could be seen to satisfy us. |
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| John McLeod | August 23, 1822 | at house of Widow McLeod in the fork of Lynches Creek | Kershaw County, SC | Accident |
have unanimously agreed that the said John McLeod has received his Death by unavoidable accident as he was pouring liquor into a barrel or cask . . . which liquor caught on fire and busted the said cask and as we suppose one of the staves struck the said deceased by which which we think he rec'd his death together with the volume of flame which issued from s'd spirits as on examination we found his face mortally cut and his body much burnt |
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| Muse | slave | September 18, 1831 | at the resident of Roger Parish | Kershaw County, SC | Accident |
do upon their oaths sayeth that the sd. Slave above mentioned died by the visitation of God a natural death on the 18 Instant. . .by lying in the open air the weather being very cool and he being very old and very thin clothed |
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| Rachel Evans | August 25, 1822 | at house of Elias Parish | Kershaw County, SC | Accident | lightning |
are unanimously agreed that the said Rachel who is now lying dead at the house of Elias Parish came to her death by the visitation of God on the 24 Instant by lightning [and] was struck dead |
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| slave | slave | July 23, 1820 | Kershaw County, SC | Homicide |
do say upon their oaths [that] the said Henry [Schrock] fired at him [unknown African American] with an intention of shooting him in the legs but by chance seventeen low mold shot took him in the body of which wound he instantly died. |
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| slave | slave | May 31, 1832 | Kershaw County, SC | Natural Causes |
do unanimously believed that the said negro woman deceased formerly the property of Isaac Mothershed now lying Dead came to her death by an act of God |
