Fergus O'Connor (died 1887)

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Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 12/12/2010 at 20:59:13

Jackson Sentinel, November 24, 1887

Commits Suicide

Fergus O’Connor, a young unmarried man, aged about 26 years, committed suicide by hanging himself in the barn at his father’s, Dennis O’Connor, on the Richland and Otter Creek Township line, on last Saturday morning. It appears that the young man left home in the early fall with two car loads of cattle, intending to winter them near Vermillion, Dakota, where hay would be more plenty, but quite unexpectedly the young man returned without the cattle or anything to show for them. Report says he got into trouble of some kind and it cost him all the cattle next month to get out of the scrape. The father of the young man was very much put out with his son’s failure and took the matter deeply to heart. A coolness arose between them, the old man claiming that the boy’s queer actions had ruined him financially, while the son had little to say concerning the loss of the cattle, and perhaps felt the trouble he had brought on more keenly than was supposed, as it was this no doubt that prompted him to take his life and rid his father of any further trials or tribulations by reason of his short comings.

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