The State vs. the Dead Body of George West

the Elephant killed one of the horses and then knocked down the deceased his keeper

Date: 
August 26, 1855

Deceased

George West
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Animal
COD Method/Implement: 
elephant
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the aforesaid George West came to his death by wounds inflicted by the tusks of an Elephant

Coroner

Coroner: 
F. I. DeHay
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of William Jesse Taylor
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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