The State vs. the Dead Body of W. J. Summers

Date: 
August 18, 1843

Deceased

W. J. Summers
Description: 
youth
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Animal
COD Method/Implement: 
mule
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death by the kick of a mule the property of the Father of the deceased

Coroner

Coroner: 
D. A. Larrant
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Goshen[?] Hill
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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