The State vs. the Dead Body of Susannah Nuton

Date: 
May 28, 1828

Deceased

Susannah Nuton
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon there Oathes . . .that the aforesaid Susannah Suton Came to her Deth by hanging with a cord round her neck to the Value of Six & a fourth cents on a Sowerwood Sapling Supposed to have been commited by Same person

Coroner

Coroner: 
Gordon Gregory
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the premises of Robert[?] Watkins
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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