1882 Drowning of Miss Mattie Dozier of Union Parish Louisiana Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 8/2001 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================== ================================================================================== 1882 Drowning of Miss Mattie Dozier of Union Parish Louisiana From the "Monroe Bulletin"; issue of Wednesday, 30 August 1882, page 3, column 1 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Miss Mattie Dozier of Union parish, visiting her uncles Messrs. Fred and Abe Cann, sixteen miles below town, drowned herself last Friday morning, while in a temporary fit of insanity. The body was recovered during the day. She was about twenty years of age. #########################################################################