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Union County Coroner's Inquisitions, 1806-1869
(Involving White's & other Relatives)

Also listed below, Death Notice mentioning our Robert Jr as friend,
a SCMAR posting by Mrs Coppage a family researcher. 

1)  Robert Sr and relatives were involved with this inquisition:

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research
SCMAR, Volume XIX
Number 1, Winter, 1991
Union County Coroner's Inquisitions, 1806-1869 (Continued from Vol. XVIII, p.193)

SCMAR, Vol. XIX, Winter 1991, No. 1, p.42
JACKSON, JOHN [Top and side margins of paper mutilated.]

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research
SCMAR, Volume XIX
Number 1, Winter, 1991
Union County Coroner's Inquisitions, 1806-1869 (Continued from Vol. XVIII, p.193)

SCMAR, Vol. XIX, Winter 1991, No. 1, p.43
Inquest over John Jackson, 17 July 1810.

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research
SCMAR, Volume XIX
Number 1, Winter, 1991
Union County Coroner's Inquisitions, 1806-1869 (Continued from Vol. XVIII, p.193)

SCMAR, Vol. XIX, Winter 1991, No. 1, p.43
An Inquest taken for Union District on the Body of John Jackson… own dwelling house there Lying dead by twelve good and Lawful men after being duly sworn say that they believe the said John Jackson murdered himself with a Rifle Gun, the ball entered into his head a small distance above his right eye Ranging into his Brain. Dated 17 Feb. 1810.

This is our Robert White Sr.

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research
SCMAR, Volume XIX
Number 1, Winter, 1991
Union County Coroner's Inquisitions, 1806-1869 (Continued from Vol. XVIII, p.193)

SCMAR, Vol. XIX, Winter 1991, No. 1, p.43
Signed and sealed by Robert White, foreman, James K. Benson, Bird Murphy, Hiram Gibbs, Thomas Hays, John Goodwin, Robt. White, Samuel Bullington, Zacharias Gibbs, Robert Boatman, Robert Bullington and Jesse Boatman.

2)  James White (our William White's son), and Isaac P. Murphy (son of our Susan White), were involved with this inquisition.

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research
SCMAR, Volume XX
Number 1, Winter, 1992
Union County Coroner's Inquisitions, 1806-1869 (Continued from Volume XIX, p.206)

SCMAR, Vol. XX, Winter 1992, No. 1, p.34
Union Dist. - An Inquisition indented and taken at the house of Benjamin Landrum in the district aforesaid on 24 April 1832 before Saml. Davis, Coroner, upon view of the body of an infant child then and there lying dead upon the oaths of Bird Murphy, Gideon Jackson, John Prater, James White, Isaac P. Murphy, Sherard Duke, John Lawson, Robert Gillam, Leon Lawson, Jur., James Lawson, Wm. Lawson, Senr., Jeremiah Wix, Jason Boatman, good and lawfull men of said District, who being charged and sworn do say that the said infant on 21 April 1832 was found dead and that it had no marks of Violence upon it and died by the visitation of God in a natural way and not otherwise.

Not sure what this is about, but names below are our relatives.

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research
SCMAR, Volume XX
Number 1, Winter, 1992
Union County Coroner's Inquisitions, 1806-1869 (Continued from Volume XIX, p.206)

SCMAR, Vol. XX, Winter 1992, No. 1, p.34
Signed and sealed by Bird Murphy, Foreman, Gideon Jackson, John Prather, Jas. White, Isaac P. Murphy, Sherwood (X) Duke, Robert (X) Gilliam, Leon (X) Lawson, Jur., James Lawson, William Lawson, Jeremiah (X) Wix, Jason (X) Boatman and Saml. Davis, Coroner of Union District.

3)  Notice our relative names. 

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research
SCMAR, Volume XVIII
Number 2, Spring 1990
Union County Coroner's Inquisitions, 1806-1869 (Continued from Vol. XVIII, p.48)

SCMAR, Vol. XVIII, Spring 1990, No. 2, p.102
An Inquisition taken at the house of Robt. Martin in Dist. of Union 6 Oct. 1830 before Saml. Davis, Coroner for Sd. Dist., upon view of the body of Friday a slave, the properrty of Robt. Martin, then and there lying dead, by the oaths of Absolum Davis, John Vaughn, W. B. Murphy, T. B. Davis, Robt. Lain, Saml. White, Robt. Browning, Sen., Lewis Cooper, Young Bobo, John Lawson, Mitchel Lawson, Richard Williams, good and lawful men of said District, who being charged and sworn, do say that they are of the opinion that the said Friday came to his death by accident on the 4th instant at the Mill of Robert Martin in said Dist. on Tygar River by the water wheel catching him between the arm of said wheel and a sill near it, and that the said Friday casually and by Misfortune and against his will, the said Friday did kill.

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research
SCMAR, Volume XVIII
Number 2, Spring 1990
Union County Coroner's Inquisitions, 1806-1869 (Continued from Vol. XVIII, p.48)

SCMAR, Vol. XVIII, Spring 1990, No. 2, p.102
Signed and sealed by Absolam Davis, John (X) Vaughn, Wm. B. Murphy, T. B. Davis, R. (X) Lain, Saml. White, Robert Browning, Lewis Cooper, Young Bobo, John (X) Lawson, Mitchell (X) Lawson, Richard Williams and Saml. Davis, Coroner. Filed 26 Oct. 1830 by J. Rogers, Clk.

4)  Robert White Jr, Friend to the Deceased, Miss Peggy Underwood, member of Cedar Springs Baptist Church, Spartanburg SC, is mentioned in her death notice. Notice surnames of Cooper, Golightly (Robert Jr wife was a Golightly)

Marriage and Death Notices from Baptist Newspapers of South Carolina, 1866-1887
The Working Christian
Issue of April 14, 1870
page 121
Marriages & Deaths, Baptist Newspapers, SC, 1866-1887
About the first of March, Miss Peggy Underwood, as she was familiarly called by her friends and associates, was seized with a violent attack of pneumonia which terminated her mortal existence.... She had been a member of the Baptist church at Cedar Springs, Spartanburg county for at least thirty years. She was a daughter of William Underwood Sr., who served as a deacon in that church to the day of his death, being, I suppose, nearly eighty years of age. William Underwood and his associate in the deaconship, William Lancaster "seemed to be pillows in the church," more than half a century ago . Lancaster died in 1814 and after that time underwood was associated in his office with some younger men: David Golightly, Thomas Cooper, and Robert White.... Friend. Goudeysville, Union Co., March 31, 1870.

5)  A Family Researcher Mrs. Coppage made this posting in 1980. 
Thought it would be interesting to note how long our family researchers have been on Robert Sr's trail.  

As a footnote, Mrs. Coppage turned 90 years young! in the Fall of 1999, Mrs. Pat Boone, who reminded me of this, sent the 1856 edition of Benjamin Franklin White's, book, Sacred Harps, to Mrs. Coppage, as a gift, she had been trying to give this unique book to a descendant of Ben's lineage, and the daughter of Mrs. Coppage had responded.  

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research
SCMAR, Volume VIII
Number 2, Spring, 1980
Requests for Information

SCMAR, Vol. VIII, Spring 1980, No. 2, p.126
WHITE. Mrs. O. R. Coppage (1818 Wells Dr., Columbus, Ga. 31906) needs parents, birthplace and children of Robert White who died 21 Nov. 1843 at 100 years of age, buried in Padgett Creek Baptist Cemetery, Union, S.C. Also maiden name of wife, Elizabeth, who died 27 Dec. 1840. Was she his only wife? Robert's obituary says he served six years in Revolution. Need proof.
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