The State vs. the Dead Body of Reuben Ligon

Date: 
June 23, 1814

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

Do say upon there oaths that we believe from the Evidence of William Wright the person who found the Body of the said Rubin Ligon hanging on a Branch of a Dogwood near the mouth of the said Ligons Lane on the twenty third Day of June 1814 and the circumstances appeared to us that the said Ruben Ligon was in a state of stupidity and insane and Did on the Day above mentioned between the ours [sic[ of then & twelve Oclock neer [sic] the mouth of his own lane then and there with a Rope the value of 6 1/2 Cents did tie one end about his own neck and the Other End to a Branch of a Dogwood and there Perpetrated his Own Death...

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Peace

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Reuben Ligons
County: 

Source

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