The State vs. the Dead Body of John Shockley

lying dead on the floor in the negros house ... no signs of any violence

Date: 
July 27, 1865

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said disseast came to his death by misfortune or accident

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at John Shockley's

Source

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