The State vs. the Dead Body of Mary Gee

Date: 
June 12, 1848

Deceased

Mary Gee
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon the oaths . . .that we believe Mary E Gee . . .did commit Fellony on herself by hanging herself by the neck with a rope

Coroner

Coroner: 
A. J. Dillard
Coroner Title: 
magistrate

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Peterson Gee
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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