John McGrath

MCGRATH

Posted By: Shirley (email)
Date: 9/10/2008 at 23:26:52

John McGrath who has been making his home for some time past with his brother J.J. McGrath shot himself last Thursday evening. The family were seated at the supper table, when John who had only drank a cup of tea, arosed and went upstairs, and in a few minutes the report of a revolver reached those below. They hurried to him at once, but life was extinct when they reached him. He had spread his coat down on the carpet and lain down on it and fired the fatal shot, which took effect just back of the right ear, and death must have resulted instantly. He had been in poor health for some time and made the remark the day before that he was almost crazed with neurigia pains. Through constant suffering he had become discouraged and this supposed in a fit of despondency then decided to end it all. The funeral occurred Friday afternoon, the remains being laid to rest in the Lizard cemetery. The family have the sympathy of all. John McGrath was born in Ohio in 1853, and was 40 years of age. He leaves an aged mother and one brother to mourn his loss-Gilmore City Globe.

Source -Fonda Newspaper - 12 Oct 1893