PATTY
CANNON'S BONES
While
excavating in the east corner of the Sussex County jail lot on the
31st
of
July, 1902, prisoners on special duty unearthed a skull and a number
of bones
which
are said to be those of Patty Cannon, notorious slave trader, who had
lived
on
the Maryland & Delaware state line at Johnson's Cross Roads,
Sussex county.
She
was located in the Sussex county Jail after being convicted of murder
in
the early part of the last century. A few days before her set
execution she
died,
supposedly from self administered poison. There is no doubt the
bones
are
hers as she was the only person on record of ever being buried in
the jail
yard.
The
skull and bones are on exhibit in the office of Lawyer James A. Marsh
and
scores of people have been attracted there to see them.
SOURCE;
Wilmington Evening Journal , Friday, August 1, 1902, page 2.
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