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| John Calvin Ethridge 1854-1947, son of Nathan Ethridge 1834-1922. |
| From left Marion Ellsworth Ethridge 1875-1946, John Calvin Ethridge 1854-1947, Stella O. Ethridge 1881-1898, Nancie Elizabeth (Wishon) Ethridge 1853-1914, Nathan Elbert Ethridge 1877-1924.
Born: Oct. 29, 1853, Aurora, Lawrence Co., MO, Jul. 21, 1914 Aurora, Lawrence Co., MO - daughter of Riley Henderson Wishon and Nancy Jane (Butler) Wishon. Nancie committed suicide: The Aurora Advertiser - Aurora, Lawrence County, Missouri, Thursday, July 23, 1914 FARMER'S WIFE TAKES ACID: DIES IN HOUR Mrs. John Ethridge, living about three miles south of Aurora near the county line committed suicide Tuesday by taking carbolic acid. At about ten o'clock Tuesday morning a girl living nearby came to the Ethridge home and at first thought the house deserted. However, on entering the house thinking to find Mrs. Ethridge about the place she discovered her lying upon the bed upstairs dressed in her night clothes. A two ounce bottle labelled carbolic acid lay on the floor beside the bed and the woman had drunk the entire contents. Her husband, at work in a nearby field, was quickly notified and rushed to the house to find his wife in a critical condition and unable to speak. Dr. Miller, of Aurora, was called and arrived on the secene as promptly as possible and although he worked for more than an hour in an effort to revive her she had taken to much of the posion and died without having regained consciousness. Mrs. Ethridge, it is said, had been despondent ever since experiencing a severe spell of sickness about a year ago and had threatened several times to take her own life. The family had taken great pains to keep poisons or other means of self destructionout of her reach and had on one occasion sent her for a visit to her daughter in Kansas in the hope of diverting her mind from the subject. It was thought that she had out-lived the desire to kill herself but it would seem that she has planned the deed for several days as the label on the bottle was pracilcally new and it is supposed that she secretly purchased the acid while in Aurora last Saturday and while her son was away from home at work north of Aurora and her husband busy in the field she took the opportunity to end it all. Deceased had been a resident of the community all her life, having been born on a farm near where she died, and was about 60 years of age. She leaves, besides her husband, a daughter living in Altamont, Kansas, a son livinng in Carterville, a son living near Aurora and one other whose address was not learned. |
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