This
last (and only sternwheeler) Natchez of the Leathers' fleet
survived some near misses; sank about three miles above Natchez,
Mississippi, November 1896, with 1,700 bales of cotton and 8,757
sacks of seed, due to dried hull seams. In February 1897, she hit
the shore at Cottonwood, twenty miles below Vicksburg, tore away
the jack staff and stages and toppled her chimneys. She sank at
Ford's Crossing, twelve miles below Natchez, in November 1899.
She got new boilers July 1914, and less than a year later was in
the hands of a U.S. Marshal who sold her for $6,500. She was
often laid up for long periods, and was dismantled in
1918.
*This information was obtained from The Old Courthouse Museum
(Vicksburg, Mississippi,) courtesy of Dr. Gordon A.
Cotton.
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