The State vs. the Dead Body of Patsy Wilson

Date: 
June 17, 1857

Deceased

Patsy Wilson
Description: 
colored free woman
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

we do find that she came to her death, by hanging herself that the said Patsy Wilson in manner made from aforesaid, then and there voluntarily and feloniously herself did hang and kill, against the peace and dignity of the same State aforesaid.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Kelly Sullivan
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of Robert Wilson
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

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