The State vs. the Dead Body of Blanchy Wilson

Date: 
November 30, 1893

Deceased

Blanchy Wilson
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that at woods childs house. . .by a single barrel shot gun lying in the loft of said house and started to fall and Siche Chiles caught the gun and it struck the joist and fired

Coroner

Coroner: 
F. V. Cooper
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
on the plantation of Robert Hastings
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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L19077_0001_748.jpg

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