The State vs. the Dead Body of William Abernathy

Date: 
July 12, 1855

Deceased

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

from the examination of witnesses and other circumstances we the jury return a verdict of death by his own hands produced from mental deragement. . .which he did by hanging himself with a rope

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Source

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