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Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1858 -
Rochester Daily Democrat
Rochester, Monroe, N. Y.
July 10, 1858
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY - The Cedar Valley (Iowa) Times relates
the particulars of a horrible transaction in Iowa, on the 30th
ult. Ambrose S. SKEELS, formerly of Lockport, had parted from his
wife and went to Michigan, leaving her at Cedar Rapids. A few
weeks since, he returned and endeavored to effect a
reconciliation with his wife. She refused to receive him and at
once took steps to procure a divorce, alleging ill-treatment.
SKEELS went to her house one day, while she was absent, at a
neighbor's. One of the children went to inform her mother, and
the latter, accompanied by a young lady, went home and found
SKEELS in the cellar. He was told to leave the house, Mrs. S.
saying she had told him often enough not to come there. He came
out of the cellar, and his wife was about to fasten the door,
when he threw her down, and with a pocket knife nearly cut her
head off, killing her at once. He then inflicted wounds upon his
own throat, which soon after proved fatal. The man was 35 years
old, and the woman 32; they had been married fifteen years, and
leave four destitute children. Mrs. SKEELS maiden name was Bulah
C. VINTON.
[transcribed by G.S. August 2003]
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The Chicago Press
and Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
September 1, 1858
Died. At Wyoming, Jones county, Iowa, on Wednesday, August 25th,
Julia E. Allen, wife of J.B. Allen, Esq., aged 26 years, 10
months and 8 days.
[transcribed by S.F., January 2009]