The State vs. the Dead Body of Wade Adair

Date: 
December 13, 1891

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that he said Wade Adair came to his death by being accidentally run over by the C N & L Train No. 151 P.C. Gailard Conductor and we find Railroad Company in no wise responsible for his death.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Clinton
County: 

Source

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