The State vs. the Dead Body of Eliza Jane Huckaby

Date: 
April 24, 1874

Deceased

Eliza Jane Huckaby
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that. . .the said Eliza Jane Juckaby came to her death by her own hands by hanging herself with a rope in a rather mysterious way

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. E. F. Davis
Coroner Title: 
acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Jane Littlefield in Cross Anchor township
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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