The State vs. the Dead Body of Pleasant T. Gossett

Date: 
November 18, 1870

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said P.T. Gossett came to his death by hanging himself by the neck between the cribs at home

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Source

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