Mary Peck

First Name: Mary
Last Name: Peck
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their Paths, "That the said Mark Peck, came to her death, hanging herself with a hank of spun cotton, to the end one of the logs of the Chimney, while in a state mental derangement.

COD Short Description: 
hung herself
Original Record: 
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