The State vs. the Dead Body of Elizer

Date: 
February 26, 1845

Deceased

Elizer
Description: 
female slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
John Forbis
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Eliza did voluntarily and feloniously herself Kill by means of tying a Rope around the Neck and hanging herself to a Joice[?] in an out house

Coroner

Coroner: 
Isaac Gregory
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at John Forbise's
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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

John Forbis ... sayeth that he had on the 25th Instant attented to whip the diseased and she yanked loos from him and Run off and he heard nor saw nothing more of her until he found her haning dead in an oald out house

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