Wm McGowen

First Name: Wm
Last Name: McGowen

Wm McGowen Inquests

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Name Deceased Description Date Inquest Location County Death Type Death Method Inquest Finding
Unknown Negro Woman near Swansey's Ferry Unknown Negro Woman near Swansey's Ferry May 25, 1845 near Swanseys Ferry Laurens County, SC Suicide

do say upon there oaths that the said negro woman not having god before her Eyes, but being seduced & moved by the instigation of the devil at the place aforesd then and there being alone, in a common river called Saluda voluntarily & feloniously drowned herself...

Source ID: 
199

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