The State vs. the Dead Body of Henry Coil

Date: 
December 25, 1824

Deceased

Henry Coil
Description: 
man supposed to be Henry Coil
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their Oaths that he with Strolling About Perisht with hunger & Coald . . .did kill and homicide himself

Coroner

Coroner: 
Gordon Gregory
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the premises of [??]
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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