Benjamin Yeargan

First Name: Benjamin
Last Name: Yeargan
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do Say that he voluntarily and felloniously himself did Kill by hanging him self to a Pine limb against the peace and dignity of the State aforesaid

COD Short Description: 
hung himself
Original Record: 
5188

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