The State vs. the Dead Body of Peggy Walden

Date: 
October 31, 1840

Deceased

Peggy Walden
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the deceased Peggy Walden came to her death by her own act (viz) self murder in hanging herself from a branch of a certain. . .oak tree near the dwelling house against the peace & dignity of the state

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Chapman
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Joseph Walden
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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