The State vs. the Dead Body of Cap Bryan

Date: 
February 25, 1893

Deceased

Cap Bryan
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Head Trauma
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths aforesaid do say That the aforesaid Cap Bryan came to his death from a lick with a rock thrown by a blast from the Quary which we consider purely accidental

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Kennedy
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of Mrs Doziers
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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