1860-12-29, Richmond Dispatch; Correction on death at Tredegar – did not die in a fall, but of “congestion of the brain”
From the Richmond Dispatch, 12/29/1860, p. 1, c. 7
Sudden Death. – Mathew Hays, whose sudden death at the Tredegar Works on Thursday last was noticed yesterday, did not fall, but died of congestion of the brain.