From the Richmond Enquirer, 5/13/1862, p. 1, c. 5

CHILD DROWNED. – The body of a little girl, about six years of age, daughter of Mr. John Roberts, an employee at the Belle Isle works, was found in a fish trap, on yesterday, about 100 yards from the Manchester shore, near the Danville bridge. – No inquest was held, the father of the child being satisfied that she was accidentally drowned.

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