Mrs. Harlan Scott

SCOTT, STARK

Posted By: Mona Knight <mknight5@ctc.net>
Date: 8/1/2009 at 18:59:58

Sioux Valley News, Correctionville, Woodbury, Iowa, Thursday, May 21, 1896.
DEMENTED WOMAN SUICIDES.
Centerville, Ia., May 16 - Mrs. Harlan Scott, the wife of a Christian minister at Paris, near Drakeville, sixteen miles east of this city, in Davis county, tried to kill herself in a manner most horrible. She has been mentally deranged of late, and she borrowed a double barreled
shotgun, and placing the butt of the gun upon the floor, she bent her weight upon the muzzle of the weapon, the pit of her stomach covering the end of the barrels, and pushed the trigger with a stick. The contents of both shells were discharged into her abdomen. Death soon resulted. She is the daughter of a prominent stock man of this county and is the mother of six
small children.

(NOTE TO RESEARCHERS: Mrs. Harlan Scott was formerly Rhoda J. Stark. They married in Appanoose Co., Iowa, on August 1, 1875.)

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