The State vs. the Dead Body of Patsy Cleary

Date: 
December 30, 1857

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
hank of cotton
COD Inquest Finding: 

having examined the corpse do decide that the deceased came to her death by the voluntary act of hanging herself with a hank of cotton

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Lewis [?]

Source

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