The State vs. the Dead Body of Joel Roper Sr.

Date: 
August 30, 1845

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say the said Joel Roper Sr came to his death by hanging himself by a rope to the cotton beams of his own gin house on his own plantation . . .in a fit of patrial derangement

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Joel Roper Sr

Source

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