The State vs. the Dead Body of Nancy Poole

Date: 
March 31, 1841

Deceased

Nancy Poole
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

uppon [sic] their oaths do say by violence at her own house. . .by hanging herself with a rope by the neck

Coroner

Coroner: 
Hiram White

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Nancy Pool's
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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