Mrs. Amelia Sullivan

SULLIVAN

Posted By: Volunteer - Karen DaPra
Date: 10/1/2001 at 23:16:51

--Mrs. Amelia Sullivan, who lived about four miles southwest of Farmington, in Missouri, committed suicide Friday of last week by saturating her clothing with coal oil and setting fire to it. While her husband was at work in the barnyard she prepared for the suicide, went out into the garden, touched a lighted match to her oil-soaked clothes, and when her husband found her all her clothes were burned off, including her shoes, and her body was charred. It is thought that the deed was done in a fit of temporary insanity. The victim's mother has been insane for several years.

(Photocopy of this obit is located on page 32 of Obit Book A found in the Van Buren County Iowa Genealogical Society's collection at the Keosauqua Public Library in November 1999. Name and date of newspaper not given.) ORIGINAL POST 15 Nov 1999.

I am not related to this person and am posting this obit for those who may find him/her in their family history.