The State vs. the Dead Body of Benjamin Yeargan

Date: 
December 11, 1865

Deceased

Benjamin Yeargan
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do Say that he voluntarily and felloniously himself did Kill by hanging him self to a Pine limb against the peace and dignity of the State aforesaid

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Nabors
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of Benjmain Yeargans
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

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

E Cunningham being sworn says between 8 & 9 oclock this morning he came to the house of Decd and found him hanging by neck to a pine limb he was perfectly dead and cold he took him down and brought him in the house

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