The State vs. the Dead Body of Blair Massey

Date: 
May 16, 1896

Deceased

Blair Massey
Description: 
Alias: Isaac Funderburk
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say that the deceased came to his death by natural causes

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. R. Massey
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Phillip Arrant
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

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

Phillip Arrant Sworn ana says, an the 15th night of May 1899 Blase Massey Alias Isaac Funderburk was well and hearty, and eat heart and went to bed between eight and nine o'clock, that's all I know about him until this morning the 16th of May 1899. He was lying there dead just as he is now

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