The State vs. the Dead Body of Sam Burton

Date: 
December 9, 1876

Deceased

Sam Burton
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Overdose
COD Method/Implement: 
laudanum
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that Sam Burton came to his death by the voluntary use of laudanum taken by himself, and taken from the hands of his brother John Burton

Coroner

Coroner: 
John C. Whitfield
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

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