The State vs. the Dead Body of Eli Givings

Date: 
July 15, 1850

Deceased

Eli Givings
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon the evidence submitted on oath before us that Eli Givings came to his death by his own hand by hanging himself with a rope not worth more that 12 cts.

Coroner

Coroner: 
A. Wingo
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the late residence of Eli Givings
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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