The State vs. the Dead Body of Howard Birdsong

Date: 
August 4, 1863

Deceased

Howard Birdsong
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that he came to his death by his own hands by "Hanging"

Coroner

Coroner: 
T. Q. Donaldson

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Greenville
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

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