The State vs. the Dead Body of Hutson B. Sulivan

Date: 
August 13, 1866

Deceased

Hutson B. Sulivan
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
rope or cord
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon oaths say that the deceased came to his death by self murder by hanging himself with a rope, or cord supsended to a rafter of the house where he was found

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Black
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Kely Sulivan's [?] residence
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

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