The State vs. the Dead Body of Nancy Steele

Wm Heaton being sworn says that [Nancy] came into his house this morning & beged [sic] him to kill her

Date: 
December 11, 1842

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon oaths that the said Nancy Steele . . . at the Poor House of said District was found dead that she had no marks of violence upon her except what was caused by the rope around her neck by which she was hanging from a limb of a tree about half a mile from the house & that she evidently came to her death by her own hands.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate and coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the Poor House

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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