The State vs. the Dead Body of William Mahan

Date: 
November 20, 1810

Deceased

William Mahan
Description: 
single man
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
hemp rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon the oaths . . .do say that the Sd Wm Mahan for want of the Grace of God & the instagation of the Divel Came to his Death by forcing a small hemp rope Round his neck to a Beam of the house in his own BeadRoom where with he hangd himd Self Dead

Coroner

Coroner: 
William Kennedy
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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