The State vs. the Dead Body of Absalom Causey

Date: 
September 27, 1863

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say; that he came to his death by wounds inflicted with a hickory club on the head and side and hip in the hand of Doctor Miles Gilmore

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Reaves Mill Branch
County: 

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Miles Gilmore
Inquest Images: 
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