The State vs. the Dead Body of Tip Jackson

Date: 
November 29, 1885

Deceased

Tip Jackson
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Tip Jackson came to his death by accidentally falling down a steep bank about fourteen feet, his neck falling across a log causing suffocation new New Prospect on the Mills Gap Road about midnight

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. J. McDowell
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
near New Prospect
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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