The State vs. the Dead Body of Elisa Wilson

Date: 
October 14, 1841

Deceased

Elisa Wilson
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

We the above named Jurors do say on our oaths, that Eliza Wilson now here lying dead came to her death by her own act, by hanging herself with her apron and petty coat by the neck on a dogwood tree, in the forrest near her Father Edward Wilson's House on the 12th October 1841.

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. S. Neel
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Edward Wilson's
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

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