The State vs. the Dead Body of Goodall

Date: 
September 15, 1823

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the said Goodall not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil at the boat yard near Camden . . . then and there himself voluntarily and feloniously downed [himself]

Coroner

Coroner: 

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the boatyard near Camden on the Wateree
County: 

Source

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