The State vs. the Dead Body of Daniel Brown

Date: 
October 8, 1881

Deceased

Daniel Brown
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Heart
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said Daniel Brown died. . . in the cotton field on the plantation of Willis Watkins by no act of violence or foul means but by heart disease.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Larkin Newton
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of Willis Watkins
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

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