Mary Jane Davis (died 1873)

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Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 4/26/2009 at 21:09:00

Jackson Leader, reprinted in the Maquoketa Weekly Excelsior, July 10, 1873.

Mary Jane Davis

On the evening of Wednesday, July 2, Miss Mary Jane Davis, daughter of our respected citizen, T. H. Davis, Esq., shot herself through the heart with a pistol. The fatal occurrence took place shortly before 9 p.m. But five minutes before she had been conversing with some friends at the gate whom she left. Going up stairs to her room she threw herself on the bed where she was found by the family who were attracted by the report, in the last agony of death. The popular opinion declares the act to be suicide, but the evidence is by no means conclusive. We suspend all opinion until the result of further inquiry is made known. We hope-nay firmly trust that the life whose sun thus set in darkness and gloom, has melted into an eternal brightness beyond earth’s cloudy horizon.