Sarah Shacleford

First Name: Sarah
Last Name: Shacleford
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
handkerchief
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there [sic] oaths do say that she did hang herself voluntarily with a small silk handkerchief suspended from the limb of a post oak on this day about 9 o'clock A.M.

COD Short Description: 
hanged self
Original Record: 
2977

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