Julia A. Hopper Robbins

HOPPER, ROBBINS, CARROLL

Posted By: Dianna Fyfe
Date: 2/27/2005 at 16:31:01

Consternation reigns supreme in Minot this Friday morning, when the news was suddenly spread that Mrs. Julia A. Robbins, the wife of Alderman Chas. H Robbins, had ended her own life by shooting herself through the head. For some time past Mrs Robbins has been the victim of unnatural despondency, , which was greatly increased by the death of her little daughter a few weeks ago. On several occasions has expressed a desire for death to come and relieve her of her life. Her husband, realizing that her mind was in a partially unsettled condition, watcher her closely and did all in his power and rouse her from her mental despondency. This morning she informed him that she would end her life to day, but he did not think her remark was made in seriousness. Later he became apprehensive and returned to her room. He remembered that he had a revolver there and asked her for it,k but she did not reveal its wherabouts. Being very busy, he returned to Commercial office, and almost immediately a shot rang out. Hastening with others to the room, the horrified husband and friends found Mrs. Robbins with a bullet hole in her right temple, gasping away her life. She breathed for about forty minutes and then entered the other world. Mrs. Robbins has for years in ill helth being greatly troubled with heart failure and other complications. The death of her little daughter hastened the mental abberation which has for a long time been trhreatened. Her death is a great blow to her loving husband,. who has cared for her so tenderly, to her little daughter, who cannot realize the enormity of her loss, to her affectionate sisters, Mesdames D.C. Robbins and W. J. Carroll; and to every citizen in Minot. Kind and charitable to all, ever with a good word to neighbors, and earnest Christan wife and mother, as such, she is mourned by alll
The Journal in accord with the best of sorrowing friends, expresses heartfelt sympathy for the grief-stricken husband and the innocent little daughter and the loving sisters.
LATER: The funeral will occur at three o'clock Saturday after noon.
Minot Daily News July 27 1894

Note that Julia A. Robbins was the daughter of James Jackson Hopper and Julia Elder Hopper