Matildy Posey

First Name: Matildy
Last Name: Posey
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said Matildy Posey not having God before her eyes but being Seduced by the instigation of the devil at the River then & there being alone in then called Redy River herself voluntarily & feloniously drowned.

COD Short Description: 
drowned herself in a river
Original Record: 
5117

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