The State vs. the Dead Body of William McMahan

Date: 
November 20, 1810

Deceased

William McMahan
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
hemp rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say on their oaths that for want of the Grace of God and the instatigation of the Divel did William McMahan hang himSelf with a hemp Rope fixt[?] [?] his own BedSide

Coroner

Coroner: 
William Kennedy
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
in his own home
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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