The State vs. the Dead Body of Mary Cole

Date: 
March 4, 1828

Deceased

Mary Cole
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that. . .Mary Cole. . . did kill and homicide her self by hanging her self with a Bridel of the value of twentyfive cent on a [?] tree

Coroner

Coroner: 
Gordon Gregory
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the premises of D A Mitthers[?]
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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