Wm. Power

First Name: Wm.
Last Name: Power

Wm. Power Inquests

Displaying 1 - 2 of 2
Name Deceased Description Date Inquest Location County Death Type Death Method Inquest Finding
John November 28, 1850 at Yancy Hellams Laurens County, SC Suicide

upon their oaths Do Say they have examined the Dead Body of the above Decd and find that he came to his death by hanging him self by the neck with a cotton cord about ren foot long to a ash tree about eight foot high we find no mark of violence about his body nor Person... Some Slight marks of a switch or cowskin upon his Shoulders...

Miles Robuck December 16, 1856 at the house of S.S. Roebuck Laurens County, SC Accident

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death by having his head crushed between the head block and one of the arms of the Cog wheel of a Cotton Gin, that the said Miles Roebuck came to his death in manner and form aforesaid, by misfortune or accident.

Source ID: 
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