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Home Advocate
Friday, 17 April 1885, page 3
Henry Jones, a freedman, aged about twenty two years, who for some time 
past has served as ferryman at the mouth of Bayou Cornie, mysteriously 
disappeared on Saturday last. Fears are entertained that he accidentally 
fell from a skift and was drowned; his continued absence from his family 
can be accounted for on no other hypothesis.

(next week)
Home Advocate
Friday, 24 April 1885, page 3
The body of Henry Jones (col.) of whose mysterious disappearance we made 
mention last week, was found, Saturday, on the west bank of D'Arbonne, 
about three miles below the ferry. Coroner Jameson impaneled a jury 
composed of Messers M. W. Rabun, W. P. Fenton, Frank Tettletin, H. Luding 
and J. A. Roberts, which, after careful examination of the body rendered 
a verdict of "death by drownding [sic]." 

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