Elizabeth Greer

First Name: Elizabeth
Last Name: Greer
Description: 
lunatic
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that from every circumstance shown to them that it must have originated from a former attact of lunacy, which had for a time appearently Subsided, they do believe that She did Shoot and kill herself through a partial derangement from the former disease

COD Short Description: 
attack of lunacy
Original Record: 
3276

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