John H. Walker
John H. Walker Inquests
| Name | Deceased Description |
Date |
Inquest Location | County | Death Type | Death Method | Inquest Finding |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Bob | freedman | October 10, 1865 | near David Holcomb's | Spartanburg County, SC | Unknown | ||
| 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 |
