Sarah Scurry

First Name: Sarah
Last Name: Scurry
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she Sarah Scurry came to her death by her own act they say she did voluntarily go down in the Saluda River . . .and feloniously did drown herself

COD Short Description: 
drowned self in Saluda River
Original Record: 
3431

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