The State vs. the Dead Body of Augustus Moore

Date: 
July 16, 1843

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon there [sic] oaths that there was a bruse [sic] on his left breast near his hart [sic] and also on the left arm oposit [sic] the bruse [sic] on his breast and also that he came to his death by the bruse [sic] or drowned axidentally [sic]

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Mary Flemming's

Source

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