The State vs. the Dead Body of Mary M. Williams

Date: 
March 20, 1860

Deceased

Mary M. Williams
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that from the evidence itself shown that the deceased Mary M. Williams came to her death by an act of her own by drowning cause[ed by] mental estrangement.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Jonathan Pickrell
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at William William's residence
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

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