The State vs. the Dead Body of Alex Black

Date: 
October 27, 1884

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that he came to his death from disease of the brain in his field some two hundred yards from his house

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Philadelphia in Spartanburg County

Source

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