F. I. DeHay
F. I. DeHay Inquests
| Name | Deceased Description | Date | Inquest Location | County | Death Type | Death Method | Inquest Finding |
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| Amos | slave | March 15, 1856 | at the plantation of John McRae on the banks of the Wateree | Kershaw County, SC | Suicide |
upon their oaths do say that the said negro Amos came to his death by jumping into the Wateree River where he was drowned |
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| colored | colored | June 12, 1856 | at a house on Rutledge Street in the town of Camden and occupied by one John Strickling | Kershaw County, SC | Natural Causes |
upon their oaths do say that from the evidence before the jury the child came to its death naturally having had severe convulstions at several times during the two previous days |
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| Fanny | slave | November 4, 1855 | at the plantation of Edward A. Salmond about four miles from Camden | Kershaw County, SC | Homicide |
do say that that the Negro woman came to her death by a fit of apoplexy on the morning of the fourth day of November 1855 in her own house. |
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| George | slave | July 19, 1855 | near Pine Tree Creek | Kershaw County, SC | Homicide |
upon their oaths do say that the said negro child George, from the evidence adduced before the Jury came to his death by the hands of one Jackson Bradley aided and abetted by one William Adkins on the Saturday night before the said Jackson Bradley was committed to Jail |
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| George West | August 26, 1855 | at the plantation of William Jesse Taylor | Kershaw County, SC | Accident | elephant |
do say that the aforesaid George West came to his death by wounds inflicted by the tusks of an Elephant |
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| James Graham | June 8, 1858 | at the place known as the public square in Logtown | Kershaw County, SC | Accident |
upon their oaths do say that the said Jame Graham here lying dead came to his death from intemperance and exposure |
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| James Tiller | March 9, 1854 | at the Mansion House in the Town of Camden | Kershaw County, SC | Unknown |
upon their oaths do say that the said James Tiller came to his death by a visitation of God |
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| Jerry | slave | June 6, 1857 | at the residence of Rev. J.K. Mendenhall on Lyttleton Street within the bounds of the Town of Camden | Kershaw County, SC | Homicide | jug |
upon their oaths do say that the said negro boy Jerry came to his death from a blow on the left side of the head ... inflicted by a jug in the hands of Bob a slave of Thomas E. Shannon |
| Jim | slave | June 19, 1858 | at the plantation of A.H. Boykin | Kershaw County, SC | Homicide |
upon their oaths do say that the said negro Jim came to his death. . .from three wounds inflicted on and across the face by some weapon or instrument to the jury unknown in the hands of Dick a slave of William Sanders |
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| Miley | slave | April 5, 1858 | at a house near the jail in York Street, Camden | Kershaw County, SC | Unknown |
opon their oaths do say that the said negro woman died from exhaustion consequent upon hysterical mania in the jail |
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| Unknown | February 17, 1854 | Kershaw County, SC | Unknown | ||||
| Unknown | June 26, 1856 | at a spot near the Wateree River and on or near the Road leading to Chesnut's Ferry | Kershaw County, SC | Accident |
upon their oaths do say that after such examination as was in their power to make they are clearly of opinion that the decased came to his death by falling into the ditch leading from Bolton's[?] Branch while in a state of intoxication and being unable to help himself was drowned |
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| Unknown | April 23, 1854 | at a spot near Chesnut's field about four miles from Camden | Kershaw County, SC | Unknown |
upon their oaths do say that the person aforesaid came to his death by causes uknown |
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| W. F. Hunter | June 1, 1853 | at the residence of William Clyburn | Kershaw County, SC | Homicide | knife |
upon their oaths do say that the said William Ferdinand Hunter came to his death by wounds inflicted by a knife in the hands of John Love, Junior, in the woods near the residence of William Clyburn, about twelve miles north of Camden, on the road leading to Lancaster, on the thirty-first day of May A.D. 1853 |
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| William | slave | November 10, 1856 | near Prospect Church near the line of Richland and on the waters of Wayland's Creek | Kershaw County, SC | Homicide |
do say that the said negro man William came to his death from a wound in the back caused by a shot gun in the hands of some person or persons to the jurors unknown |
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| William I. Graham | September 13, 1854 | at the Camden Hotel kep by William M. Watson in the Town of Camden | Kershaw County, SC | Homicide | bowie knife |
upon their oaths do say that the said William I. Graham came to his death from a wound in the left breast inflicted by a bowie knife in the hands of John Lee Dixon |
