The State vs. the Dead Body of Thomas Waters

Date: 
April 7, 1866

Deceased

Thomas Waters
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say ... they do believe that the said Thomas Waters was killed ... by a gun shot in the head & that the said gun was in the hands of Elias McLandon

Coroner

Coroner: 
John R. Shaw
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
on the plantation of Daniel McCaskill on Lynches Creek
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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