The State vs. the Dead Body of Sarah Owens

Date: 
October 9, 1866

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say - That we the undersigned Jurors after having investigated by examination of the witnesses thru courses peculiar to her natural Temperament which was "child-like" - that the sd. Sarah came to death by voluntarily hanging her self with her own hands.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate

Location

Inquest Location: 
at David Owens's
County: 

Source

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