Joel Roper Sr.

First Name: Joel
Last Name: Roper
Suffix: Sr.
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say the said Joel Roper Sr came to his death by hanging himself by a rope to the cotton beams of his own gin house on his own plantation . . .in a fit of patrial derangement

COD Short Description: 
hanged self in gin house
Original Record: 
3434

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