The State vs. the Dead Body of Judy Cook

Date: 
August 9, 1861

Deceased

Judy Cook
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
hank of yarn
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Miss Judy Cook came to her death by hanging herself with a hank of yarn tied around the neck

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. M. Elford
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at or near the residence of Mary Ann Cook
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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