Obituaries: Infant Daughter of Thomas W. Christy, 1877, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: May 19, 1877 Colfax Chronicle

Child Drowned

On Wednesday, the 9th inst., a little daughter of Mr. Thomas W. Christy, who
lives a few miles below Montgomery, was accidentally drowned.  She was setting
out a shrimp-sack when she fell into the river, and no succor being at hand,
she lost her life.  A party came to Colfax on Friday for the purpose of
watching for the body if it floated down the river.  George Keary, ferryman at
this point, discovered the body early on Monday morning last and brought it
ashore.  It was taken in charge by our fellow townsman, John R. Gray, who had
a neat coffin made for it, and he shipped it on the Maria Louise and took it 
to its former home.  The family expressed great joy on receiving the body of
their lost one, as the deemed it gone forever.