The State vs. the Dead Body of Barbary Havard

he had heard her say sometime previous that the trouble that she saw, she was afraid that she would hang herself

Date: 
November 5, 1840

Deceased

Barbary Havard
Description: 
wife of Mark Havard
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the deceased came to her death as they believe--by hanging herself

Coroner

Coroner: 
Andrew Reid
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
in the house of Mark Havard
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

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