The State vs. the Dead Body of Cephas Palmer

Date: 
March 31, 1879

Deceased

Cephas Palmer
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Cephas Palmer came to his death by drowning being his own act

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. G. Gaffney
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at W. G. Austell's Mill Pond
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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