The State vs. the Dead Body of Bluford Abney

Date: 
November 14, 1894

Deceased

Bluford Abney
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

the said Bluford Abney came to his death by natural causes or colic

Coroner

Coroner: 
Theophilus Dean
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at M.A. Colemans plantation
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

Bluford Abney the deceased came here ... sick complained of his stomach, he threw up and told me that he got hold of a little whisky He did not complain of there being anything wrong with the whisky. I know of no one having anything against him

He said uncle Dave give me something cant you, I then give him a dose of calomel[?]

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