The State vs. the Dead Body of Wesley McCombs

Date: 
July 11, 1858

Deceased

Wesley McCombs
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
rifle
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say from the evidences & appearances that they think he must have killedhimself by shooting himself with a rifle gun in the forehead near his father's house about sunrise

Coroner

Coroner: 
Elias Wall
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Martin M. Comb's
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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