Isabel Atkins

First Name: Isabel
Last Name: Atkins
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths, that. Not having God before her eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil Between Rocky Mt. and John Williamsons store, aforesaid in a certain wood standing & being the said Isabel Atkins, being then and there alone with certain cotton hank of the value of six and 1/2 cents, which she then & there held in her hands, & one end of she then & there put about her neck, and the other end thereof she put round the bough, of a certain tree & herself then & there, with the cord aforesaid, voluntarily & feloniously and of her malice aforethough, hanged, & suffocated...

COD Short Description: 
hung herself
Original Record: 
5123

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