The State vs. the Dead Body of Sarah Scurry

Date: 
September 28, 1844

Deceased

Sarah Scurry
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she Sarah Scurry came to her death by her own act they say she did voluntarily go down in the Saluda River . . .and feloniously did drown herself

Coroner

Coroner: 
James Maynard
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the House of Sarah Scurry
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

as She had left home on the 27th of Sep 1844 and had made some attempt to drown herself

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