The State vs. the Dead Body of John Jackson

Date: 
July 17, 1810

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
rifle
COD Inquest Finding: 

say on there Oaths that we Belive the Said John Jackson for [?] and of the [?] of [?] and the instagation of the Divel homicideed him Self Shooting him Self with a Rifle Gun the Ball Entered into his head a Small Distance above his Right Ey Reanging[?] into his Brain

Location

Inquest Location: 
at own Dweling
County: 

Source

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