Lucy Gray

First Name: Lucy
Last Name: Gray
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Lucy Gray came to her death [by] voluntarily & feloniously hanging herself by the neck in the house of John Brown aftoresaid to one of the joist of said house

COD Short Description: 
hanged self by joist of house
Original Record: 
3032

Get in touch

  • Department of History
    220 LeConte Hall, Baldwin Street
    University of Georgia
    Athens, GA 30602-1602
  • 706-542-2053
  • admin@ehistory.org

eHistory was founded at the University of Georgia in 2011 by historians Claudio Saunt and Stephen Berry

Learn More about eHistory

Supporters

+ American Council of Learned Societies
+ DigiLab, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia