The State vs. the Dead Body of Elizabeth Greer

Date: 
February 7, 1845

Deceased

Elizabeth Greer
Description: 
lunatic
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that from every circumstance shown to them that it must have originated from a former attact of lunacy, which had for a time appearently Subsided, they do believe that She did Shoot and kill herself through a partial derangement from the former disease

Coroner

Coroner: 
Isaac Gregory
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the dwelling House of Mrs. Mary Greer
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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

the deceased had not been in her proper mind for fifteen years past, and had been pronounced a lunatic and sent to the aysilam, and had seemingly recovered, and was appearently as well in her mind down to the time of her death as She had ever been since her first attact

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