The State vs. the Dead Body of Betty Jo Edgeworth

Date: 
February 18, 1948

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say that Betty Jo Edgeworth received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by a tree falling on school Bus. . . & recommend that Mr. Jessie McManus & crew be held not responsible -- Unavoidable

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Pageland, S.C.

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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