The State vs. the Dead Body of Benjamin Clark

Date: 
April 22, 1872

Deceased

Benjamin Clark
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the sd' Benjamin Clark came to his death by his own hands by hanging himself by the neck in the horse lot to the limb of a white oak

Coroner

Coroner: 
Daniel Willis
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Benjamin Clark's
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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