The State vs. the Dead Body of Isabel Atkins

Date: 
August 11, 1834

Deceased

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

do say upon their oaths, that. Not having God before her eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil Between Rocky Mt. and John Williamsons store, aforesaid in a certain wood standing & being the said Isabel Atkins, being then and there alone with certain cotton hank of the value of six and 1/2 cents, which she then & there held in her hands, & one end of she then & there put about her neck, and the other end thereof she put round the bough, of a certain tree & herself then & there, with the cord aforesaid, voluntarily & feloniously and of her malice aforethough, hanged, & suffocated...

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Peace

Location

Inquest Location: 
on the Publick Road Between Rocky mt meeting house & John Williamsons Store
County: 

Source

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