The State vs. the Dead Body of Matildy Posey

Date: 
July 13, 1831

Deceased

Matildy Posey
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said Matildy Posey not having God before her eyes but being Seduced by the instigation of the devil at the River then & there being alone in then called Redy River herself voluntarily & feloniously drowned.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Alfired Pruitt
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Peace

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Charles Poseys
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

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

Personally came Charles Posey before the inquest and sayth on oaths that his wife- Matildy told him two or three days ago that she had some of mind to put and end to her self some time last spring

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