The State vs. the Dead Body of Jacob Long Jr.

Date: 
December 19, 1848

Deceased

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

upon their Oaths do say that the Decd came to his death by committing Suicide . . .in his own Gin house by cutting the arteries of neck with his own razor, and bled to death

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Jacob Longs

Source

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