Madison-Morgan County AlArchives Obituaries.....Lee, Alonzo  January 19, 1883
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The Huntsville Weekly Democrat, 24 Jan 1883
  SUICIDE.—On Friday last, Alonzo Lee, a white citizen of Morgan Co., Ala., 
drowned himself in the Tennessee river about a mile above Whitesburg.  We are 
told, by citizens of Whitesburg, that, seven or eight days before his suicide, 
a rabid dog bit Lee and, also, a dog.  The bitten dog exhibited symptoms of 
hydrophobia and was killed.  This fact excited Lee’s fears of hydrophobia, and, 
on Thursday, he complained of sickness and took to his bed. Early Friday 
morning, against the protests of several friends who were nursing him, he got 
out of bed and, throwing a quilt around him, went to the door and, as soon as 
he got out of doors, ran swiftly to the river, 100 yards off, jumped in, swam 
out some distance, then back to shore, and, again dived into the river, did not 
rise again, and was drowned. ‘Tis said that he had symptoms of hydrophobia, a 
statement that seems inconsistent with the fact that he showed no dread of 
water, but sought and found a watery grave.

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