The State vs. the Dead Body of Jane Soseby

Date: 
January 2, 1859

Deceased

Jane Soseby
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that Jane Soseby in manner and form aforesaid then and there voluntarily and feloniously herself did kill against the peace and dignifty of the same state aforesaid by hanging herself by the neck with a rope

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. M. Elford
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at or near John Soseby's residence
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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