Elisa Wilson

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

We the above named Jurors do say on our oaths, that Eliza Wilson now here lying dead came to her death by her own act, by hanging herself with her apron and petty coat by the neck on a dogwood tree, in the forrest near her Father Edward Wilson's House on the 12th October 1841.

COD Short Description: 
hung herself with her apron
Original Record: 
5149

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