The State vs. the Dead Body of Enoch McLean

Date: 
August 27, 1840

Deceased

Enoch McLean
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say . . .came to his death by misfortune or accident

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Carothers
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Wm C. Brown's
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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

Obadiah McLean sworn saith that he saw the said Enoch McLean go into Broad River above Howell's Ferry to swim across & being intoxicated was not able to reach the opposite bank & was drowned

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