ANDREWS, Oscar D. 1851-1895

ANDREWS, COUSE, COLIER

Posted By: Kathy Gerkins (email)
Date: 9/11/2013 at 17:57:32

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Andrews, Oscar

The body of Oscar Andrews, brought from Wyoming, passed through Charles City, last Tuesday enroute for Mitchell County for burial. He had committed suicide by hanging, during a fit of insanity, committing the act of self-destruction on Thursday the 16th. He was 44 years of age, and a widower without children. He has a number of brothers and sisters residing in Mitchell County.

SOURCE: Newspaper clipping from Floyd County Museum.
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NOTES:

Oscar D. Andrews was born April 17, 1851 in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, the son of Almon Andrews and Julia (Couse) Andrews. Oscar Died May 16, 1895, in Wyoming.

He married Nettie Lucinda Colier. She was born March 2, 1857, in Wisconsin, and died September 10, 1880.

He and his wife are buried in the Stillwater Cemetery, Orchard, Mitchell, Iowa

(Credit: DM Scott, 10/17/2013)
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SUICIDE
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Oscar D. Andrews Takes His Own Life.
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Last Saturday night word was brought to town of the suicide, by hanging, of Oscar D. Andrews, near the residence of his brother James Andrews, with whom he was living.

Early Sunday morning Coroner Fred Horton started for the scene of the suicide to investigate the matter.

Upon arriving there he summoned a jury and proceeded to inquire into the matter according to law.

The evidence produced the fact that the deceased had been insane and confined in an Iowa asylum for the past two years. That a short time ago the physicians thinking a change of climate would be beneficial, he was released and brought out here by his brother James Andrews who was caring for him.

On Thursday of last week he slipped away un-noticed, and as soon as his absence was noticed a search for him begun. The search was fruitless until Saturday when he was found suspended from a limb of a tree by a trunk strap which he had taken from the house. Upon hearing the evidence the jury returned the following verdict:

We, the coroner's jury duly impaneled, upon investigation and hearing the evidence, find that Oscar Degiteon Andrews, aged 44 years, came to his death by his own action by hanging himself to a tree with a strap, breaking his neck. We also find that the same was done while in a state of insanity.

A.M.Nichols
C.P. Meek
Oscar D. Widner
Jury

Attest:
F. Horton, Coroner

His remains were returned to his old home near Charles City, Iowa, for interment.

From "Newcastle News-Journal", Newcastle, Weston, Wyoming, May 24, 1895, page 4.

Contributed by Carl Steiger
(Posted 9/2015)