Reuben Ligon

First Name: Reuben
Last Name: Ligon
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

Do say upon there oaths that we believe from the Evidence of William Wright the person who found the Body of the said Rubin Ligon hanging on a Branch of a Dogwood near the mouth of the said Ligons Lane on the twenty third Day of June 1814 and the circumstances appeared to us that the said Ruben Ligon was in a state of stupidity and insane and Did on the Day above mentioned between the ours [sic[ of then & twelve Oclock neer [sic] the mouth of his own lane then and there with a Rope the value of 6 1/2 Cents did tie one end about his own neck and the Other End to a Branch of a Dogwood and there Perpetrated his Own Death...

COD Short Description: 
hung himself on a dogwood tree
Original Record: 
5065

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