Patsy Wilson

First Name: Patsy
Last Name: Wilson
Description: 
colored free woman
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

we do find that she came to her death, by hanging herself that the said Patsy Wilson in manner made from aforesaid, then and there voluntarily and feloniously herself did hang and kill, against the peace and dignity of the same State aforesaid.

COD Short Description: 
hanged self
Original Record: 
2396

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