John H. Walker

First Name: John
Middle Name(s): H.
Last Name: Walker

John H. Walker Inquests

Displaying 1 - 6 of 6
Name Deceased Description Date Inquest Location County Death Type Death Method Inquest Finding
Aaron Hughes October 15, 1865 at the residence of Aaron Hughes Spartanburg County, SC Homicide

upon their oaths do say that said Aaron Hughes ... was feloniously killed and murdered by being shot in the mouth with a small ball and being struck a severe blow across the nose and ... then dragged across the road into the woods. . .by some person or persons to the jurors unknown

Bob freedman October 10, 1865 near David Holcomb's Spartanburg County, SC Unknown
Caroline Rhodes April 17, 1865 at Burnt Factory Spartanburg County, SC Accident

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by accidental drowning in Tyger River just below A. Floyd's mill dam

infant November 13, 1857 at Asail Littlefield's Spartanburg County, SC Unknown

upon their oaths do say that from an examination of the dead body of the child and from the testimony produced and examined before us we have no cause to believe that any violence was used upon the body of the child to cause its death but that it came to its death from some cause or causes unknown

infant April 6, 1865 near Hobbysville Spartanburg County, SC Homicide

upon their oaths do say that after a most careful investigation of the whole matter ... that the said child, we are satisfied, came to its death by having the posterior part of its head crushed, wilfully and violently, by the hands of Martha Robinson, the mother of said child, or Elizabeth Robinson, the grandmother of said child, later in the evening of Tuesday the 4th day of April

James M. Rhodes August 27, 1862 at the residence of James M. Rhodes Spartanburg County, SC Homicide

upon their oaths do say that. . .J. William M. Brown ... then and there [did] inflict three severe blows upon the head of deceased fracturing his skull in two places

Source ID: 
539

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