Nancy Hawkins

First Name: Nancy
Last Name: Hawkins
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
hank of cotton thread
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Nancy Jawking came to her death. . .in the woods near the residence fo Wm. Hawkings near the North Carolina line by hanging herself with a hank of cotton thread

COD Short Description: 
hanged self
Original Record: 
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