The State vs. the Dead Body of Flora Bell Ford

Date: 
October 18, 1948

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
automobile
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Flora Bell Ford received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by Ford Automobile in the hands of William Sanders

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Cheraw

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
William F. Sanders
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