Kershaw County, SC
County Name:
Kershaw
State:
South Carolina
Kershaw County, SC Inquests
Displaying 1 - 50 of 233
| Name | Deceased Description |
Date |
Inquest Location | Death Type | Death Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Langley | October 27, 1803 | Homicide | |||
| John Brown | September 16, 1804 | at Andrew Graham's plantation, near Beaver[?] Creek | Other | ||
| Tom | slave | May 5, 1805 | at plantation of John Chesnut, Esquire | Accident | |
| slave | slave | June 5, 1805 | in woods near Camden | Suicide | check string |
| Harry | slave | August 13, 1807 | at McRae & Cantey's Merchant (grist) mill | Accident | |
| James Goodson | September 28, 1807 | Natural Causes | |||
| James Spradley | August 19, 1808 | near Sander's Creek | Accident | ||
| Thomas Clark | September 14, 1811 | at plantation on Little Lynches Creek | Homicide | stick | |
| infant | November 12, 1811 | Other | |||
| George Watts | December 2, 1811 | Accident | ferry | ||
| Judith Berry | December 17, 1811 | near Swift Creek ... [at] home of James Berry | Accident | ||
| Sarah Arledge | April 22, 1812 | at Meeting House Branch | Accident | ||
| Timothy Spann | April 24, 1812 | two miles below Camden | Homicide | ||
| Jane Archer | January 13, 1813 | in house of Alexander Archer on Brown[?] Creek | Natural Causes | ||
| Belfast | slave | January 18, 1813 | on the plantation of John Damson Esqr | Suicide | knife |
| William Arledge | December 1, 1813 | near Sander's[?] Creek | Accident | horse | |
| John Bryce | March 7, 1815 | in the town of Camden | Natural Causes | ||
| Angus McQueen | January 17, 1816 | at home of Kelly McDermit | Accident | ||
| Alfred Sowell | December 1, 1816 | Accident | |||
| Alexander McKee | January 4, 1817 | in the woods near William Gardner's | Accident | ||
| Alexander Rogers | July 15, 1818 | lying in the home of F. Blair | Suicide | razor | |
| James Hall | September 25, 1818 | in town of Camden | Natural Causes | ||
| Daniel Gallis | January 31, 1819 | at house of Daniel Gillis | Accident | ||
| Milly Roler | November 2, 1819 | Natural Causes | |||
| Sam Sinclair | slave | March 24, 1820 | at John Chesnut plantation near Chesnut's Ferry on Wateree River | Homicide | |
| slave | slave | July 23, 1820 | Homicide | ||
| Nicholas Lowery | December 28, 1820 | on the Ridge Road near John Lowrey's | Accident | horse | |
| Scott | September 14, 1821 | near the mill pond of Duncan McRae, Esquire | Other | ||
| Sylvia | slave | May 21, 1822 | at John Brown plantation | Homicide | switch |
| John McLeod | August 23, 1822 | at house of Widow McLeod in the fork of Lynches Creek | Accident | ||
| Rachel Evans | August 25, 1822 | at house of Elias Parish | Accident | lightning | |
| Bob | slave | February 18, 1823 | near Captain James W. Lang's Mills | Accident | |
| Bethel Ogelsby | August 21, 1823 | cotton fields belonging to John Doby Esq. | Unknown | ||
| Goodall | September 15, 1823 | at the boatyard near Camden on the Wateree | Suicide | ||
| Captain | slave | January 24, 1824 | at plantation of Captain John Boykin | Homicide | knife |
| slave | slave | March 12, 1824 | on the river bank at the plantation of Edward Brevard | Accident | boat |
| Somerset | slave | March 24, 1824 | Accident | horse | |
| Tom | slave | July 10, 1824 | at the plantation of Mr. Wm. W. Lang | Homicide | shotgun |
| Edward | slave | August 3, 1824 | on the main Charleston Road five miles below Camden | Homicide | |
| slave | slave | August 15, 1824 | near the head of the Bell Brach within half a mile of the stage road | Unknown | |
| Robert Anderson | January 31, 1825 | at the camp near the Wateree Canal | Accident | ||
| John Adamson | August 23, 1825 | Homicide | |||
| Patt | slave | October 10, 1825 | at the residence of Mrs. Mary Mathis in Camden | Suicide | |
| Redding Summerville | January 9, 1826 | Unknown | |||
| John Cotton | March 15, 1826 | at the river bank in Mr. Jno. Nelson's field | Accident | ||
| Unknown | May 1, 1826 | in a ditch | Unknown | ||
| William Thompson | May 26, 1826 | in town of Camden | Accident | saltpeter | |
| John Nelson | June 5, 1826 | in the house of John Nelson Sen'r on Grannie's Quarter | Natural Causes | ||
| slave | slave | January 17, 1827 | near McRae's mills | Accident | |
| Unknown | February 3, 1827 | at plantation of Col. James Chesnut | Unknown |
