Phillips, George F. - Died 1895

PHILLIPS

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 3/29/2021 at 14:06:30

Source: Twice-a-Week Plain Dealer December 6, 1895, FP, C3
Transcribed from: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88059319/1895-12-06/ed-1/seq-1/

Geo. F Phillips committed suicide at New Hampton last Monday morning, shooting himself in the head with a 32 caliber revolver. Deceased was 38 years old and leaves a widow and four children.

Source: Decorah Republican Dec. 12, 1895 P 3 C 2

The Phillips Suicide at New Hampton.
The Courier gives these particulars of the suicide of Geo. F. Phillips, a druggist at New Hampton, briefly mentioned last week:—
For a long time the deceased had been in a peculiar condition of mind, and his friends were not unmindful of the fact that this deep brooding melan­choly, which at times seemed to have him in complete control, might terminate fatally and even tragically as it was. His imagination had become morbid, and he was possessed by the strange de­lusion that his burdens were increasing all the time, and that he had been chosen to bear the burdens and sorrows of a large number of people. On Sun­day he was thirty-seven years old and had a birthday party, to which were invited his own relatives and his wife’s.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he was born in 1858 and died Dec. 2, 1895. He is buried in the New Hampton Cemetery.