Talk:Lavinia Fisher

Reference
Please let it be known, i do understand Reliable sources, however I have added a reference to a Geocities (Yahoo) website, it appears to be reliable. After investigating the reliability of it on google, it appears to be factually correct. I am commenting here so people know, incase they're going to remove it. Cheers, Qst  18:36, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Find another source. It might be factually accurate, but it is a self-published source. Replace the Geocities website more reputable source. Nishkid64 (talk) 07:10, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll take a look around, but it may take a while as I'm busy with other stuff :) Qst  16:56, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

"Residence" section is a total mess
The second paragraph is written like a children's story, and the third paragraph completely contradicts the first. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.76.69.33 (talk) 22:30, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

First woman hanged in the U.S.?
I have just removed the following: "Though Mary Surrate is commonly thought to be the first woman hanged in the U.S., Lavinia Fisher was actually hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, forty years before Surrate."This is unsourced and may be a matter of definition of terms. Please source this if you restore it, avoiding synthesis as you do. Thanks. - SummerPhD (talk) 18:32, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

The Charleston Unitarian Church is not at 150 Meeting Street. The Circular Congregational Church is at that address. Tour guides have promoted this story of Lavinia's burial along with the notion that the graveyard is haunted by Lavinia. Officials at the Unitarian Church have checked the church's records and confirmed that Lavinia Fisher was not buried in the churchyard nor in the churchyard of the Circular Congregational Church. She was buried in a "Potter's Field" along with her husband.Dragonlady99 (talk) 06:31, 4 September 2010 (UTC)dragonlady99

Overthinking
So removed this "(This is incorrect, as the type of hangings that took place in Charleston did not use a gallows that she could jump from. It was a system with a weight attached to the rope at one end, went through a pulley and down to the noose. The weight was dropped, and would yank the victim off of the ground, often not breaking their neck, tearing skin, causing decapitation, and struggling in the noose for up to an hour)" since its a silly statement to make, and a poor analaysist. A book on the subject says her husband went first, and died in the fashion mentioned < http://books.google.com/books?id=rboaVpxsuUEC&pg=PA194&lpg=PA194&dq=Lavinia+Fisher+message+for+the+devil&source=bl&ots=yBXZ7YUv-M&sig=bfeqqsMO0GFMTDXIcp8ajy42b4Q&hl=en&ei=7M-tTpjFFsqHsAKXs6TeDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=Lavinia%20Fisher%20message%20for%20the%20devil&f=false > being hauled up by the neck and taking minutes to die. Pulling them off the ground rather then using a trapdoor or stool etc doesn't affect her ability to jump off the platform. And it would still be a gallows, pullies don't float on their own. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.226.20.51 (talk) 23:35, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Needless request for citation?
In the second sentence of the intro, it says "Her origins are unknown". That doesn't make sense, and I think for obvious reasons too. If we don't know something about her, than why would you need a citation to verify that you don't know something about her? Seems totally senseless if you ask me, so I removed the request for citation. Emandudeguyperson (talk) 00:11, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Image of the wrong person: Kitty Fisher
The image in the article of Lavinia Fisher is in fact a portrait of Kitty Fisher.--92.35.227.48 (talk) 15:04, 30 March 2019 (UTC)