The State vs. the Dead Body of Sarah Ray

Date:

May 3, 1850

Sarah Ray

Sex:

Female

Race:

White

COD Category:

Suicide

COD:

COD Method/Implement:

case knife

COD Inquest Finding:

do say it appeareth that she died fo self-murder ... with a case knife there foundlying near her

Coroner:

Coroner Title:

magistrate acting as coroner

Inquest Location:

at William P. Ray's

County:

South Carolina Department of Archives & History

Columbia, SC

Inquest Images:

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