WRIGHT, Mrs. Freeman

WRIGHT, EVANS

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 3/25/2007 at 12:44:24

"Fairfield Ledger Weekly", March 4, 1869

Suicide by Hanging.--- With deep regret we learn that Mrs. Freeman WRIGHT, one mile north of Batavia, in this county, committed suicide on Monday last, between 10 and 11 o’clock, by hanging herself. She was about 55 years of age. For about two weeks she had been sick, but was recovering, and was able to sit up. It is supposed that she had become discouraged on account of her illness, and committed the terrible deed while laboring under great mental distress. On the morning in question Capt. WRIGHT had gone from home on business, and the boys were engaged about the farm. There was no one at home with Mrs. WRIGHT, but a daughter about 15 years of age. She was sent on an errand, and while absent Mrs. W. dressed herself, took a rope from a chest, went to the smoke house, fastened one end of the rope to a joist, secured the other end about her neck, and swung herself from a barrel. On her return the girl could not find her mother in the house, and went to the smoke house, but could not get in. She looked in at the window and saw her mother hanging. The alarm was given, and the neighbors called in. Her eyes and tongue protruded, and death had ensued from strangulation. She had evidently suffered severely. An inquest was to be held on the body by Squire EVANS, and the foregoing are about the facts that will be brought to light.

Capt. And Mrs. WRIGHT were highly esteemed, and this terrible calamity has cast a gloom over the people in and around Batavia and wherever they were known. In their deep affliction Capt, WRIGHT and his family have the sincere sympathy of their many friends and acquaintances.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.