M. P. Evins

First Name: M.
Middle Name(s): P.
Last Name: Evins

M. P. Evins Inquests

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Name Deceased Description Date Inquest Location County Death Type Death Method Inquest Finding
Edom March 6, 1845 at the house of James D. Thomason Laurens County, SC Suicide

do say upon their oaths that the said Edom, not having God before his Eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil in the aforesaid Dist at and in the kitchen house of James D. Thomason his owner, the said Edom being then and there alone, with a pair of cotton plow lines, of 18 cts value, which he then and there had and held in his hands, and one End Whereof he then and there put about his neck and the other End thereof he tied about a Joist or beam of said Kitchen, and himself then and there with the cords aforesaid voluntarily and feloniously and of malice aforethough, hanged and suffocated...

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