The State vs. the Dead Body of J. H. McPherson

Date: 
January 3, 1877

Deceased

J. H. McPherson
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
pistol
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that he, the deceased, came to his death from the effects of a pistol shot wound in the head, inflicted by his own hand

Coroner

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

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Gaffney City
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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