The State vs. the Dead Body of Wilson Harris

Date: 
February 12, 1876

Deceased

Wilson Harris
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Animal
COD Method/Implement: 
horse
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Wilson Harris came to his death by accident caused by being run over or against by a horse ridden by John W. Wright in a race being run on the old race track at Gaffney City ... said accident being caused by his (the deceased's) own carelessness

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. G. Gaffney
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Gaffney City
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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