The State vs. the Dead Body of Solomon Ellenberg

Date: 
February 18, 1859

Deceased

Solomon Ellenberg
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

unanimously determin and conclude that the said Solomon Ellenberg in maner and form afore said then and there volunterly and feloniously himself did kill by hanging himself by the neck

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Quattlebaum
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
near the Residence of G.M. Ouzts[?]
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

says he had a rope in his pocke and a short time previous to starting of said to here he could not stay here any longer says he deceased frequently said he would destroy him self ... she then said to here mother she new here Farther was gone to kill him self and that she never expected to see him alive gain

often heard deceased say he intended to destroy him self

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