The State vs. the Dead Body of Nancy Hawkins

Date: 
March 13, 1864

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say that the said Nancy Jawking came to her death. . .in the woods near the residence fo Wm. Hawkings near the North Carolina line by hanging herself with a hank of cotton thread

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. G. Gaffney
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
near the residence of Wm. Hawking
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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