WARNER, George

WARNER, SAMPLE

Posted By: Volunteer-Betty Hootman
Date: 10/18/2012 at 17:11:44

George Warner, who lived on the old homestead just east of Lebanon, took his own life last Monday about 1 p.m. by hanging himself with a rope from a tree. At about half past twelve he started to the pasture on Indian creek a half mile south of the house for a horse for his wife to ride over to her father’s north of Lebanon. He took with him a bridle, halter, piece of rope and salt bucket. After about an hour’s absence, his began looking and waiting for his return and finally went to Sam Warner’s near by, and got his hired boy to go to the pasture and see if anything was the matter. In a short time the boy came running to the house and told his wife he was dead. Mrs. Warner paralyzed at this announcement, sent the word to a near neighbors, and soon Mr. Parley Hartson and two others went to the pasture and took him down. The boy says he say him as he approached jump from a limb, but this must have been a delusion as would easily be the case seeing him at first sight suspended from the tree and more so as the physician summoned say he must have been dead two hours. A coroner’s jury held an inquest and rendered a verdict in accordance with the evidence, that he came to his death by his own hands. The rope was a small one used on the hay fork in the barn. George Warner was 28 years old, and was married last Christmas to Miss Mate Sample, near Lebanon, and so far as we know they were living happily together and doing well. The relatives and community are amazed and dumfounded at the news and, so far as we heard, no reason is given for the strange act. George was an industrious, jovial young man, getting along well in the world, and to all appearances, had bright prospects for the future. Funeral services were held Wednesday forenoon at the residence, Rev. Cowan, of Keosauqua, officiating, and and[sic] the remains buried in the Lebanon cemetery. As a token of respect the young men of his acquaintance purchased flowers, which were made into appropriate and beautiful emblems by the young ladies and placed on the casket.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book A-2, page 215, Keosauqua Public Library; Keosauqua, IA