The State vs. the Dead Body of Lucy Gray

Date: 
December 27, 1867

Deceased

Lucy Gray
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Lucy Gray came to her death [by] voluntarily & feloniously hanging herself by the neck in the house of John Brown aftoresaid to one of the joist of said house

Coroner

Coroner: 
Thomas P. Gaston
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
in the house of John Brown
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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