Benjamin Clark

First Name: Benjamin
Last Name: Clark
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the sd' Benjamin Clark came to his death by his own hands by hanging himself by the neck in the horse lot to the limb of a white oak

COD Short Description: 
hanged self from white oak
Original Record: 
3049

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